So maybe caber’ has a point…
He does.
The thing is, if folk had (skills), paper map & compass AND the new digital navigation aids, things should be safer. I have a GPS buried at the bottom of my pack which I have twice pulled out, fired up and got a really, really accurate fix on where I was. Add in the map and compass, and what back in the day would have been 10-20 mins of 'am I here, am I not' wandering and musing, became 2 mins of 'we are HERE'....
My other concern is that modern gear increases comfort and safety, but only up until a point. I too watch the crazy folks in (usually cheap Chinese) tents camping on summit ridges in wild weather, when the sensible ones among us buried their tent down in the valley a few hundred metres below in an old fank... Modern kit compensates for poor decisions, poor mountaincraft and poor campcraft - but that help diminishes when it goes pear shaped. Fall in a river and no amount of uber down, fancy pants waterproof and on-point seasonal colour will replace having a set of spare layers with you...That tent on the 900m summit ridge being destroyed at 2am in a wet squall with all your kit still spread out to blow away from what was the tent entrance...(etc).