Shades of early twitter.
Early twitter showed the fail whale as often as it showed tweets and yet it was an unstoppable juggernaut that people kept using.
I can't speak for all CC users, but I genuinely don't care about the downtime as long as it's resolved in an hour or so. It replaces a manual coding workflow that was also prone to random "downtime" when I got annoyed or had a headache, so it's still a net improvement.
Same with Reddit. A decade ago it felt like they were down more than they were up. And it didn't slow down their growth trajectory. Instead, as soon as it was back there would be a thousand shitposts about "How did you all survive the outage? Did you <gasp> work?"