Point taken, but we get paid to keep the operation safe. That means using our professional skills every day. If those professional skills let us down, then it wouldn't be the first time a perfectly serviceable aircraft was flown into the ground.
The analogy would be a surgeon performing a career of "routine" operations and then having to deal with a patient arresting or other unexpected event. Its "only" the patients life at stake as well, not the surgeons and the rest of the ward.
Incidentally, I fly on a fleet of 8 long haul aircraft and in the last 2 months we have had 2 in flight shut downs (B767) and a pax evac (separate incident).
Perhaps not the best example, but (without getting "precious" about it), I hope it makes the point.
We train hard, initially at our own expense to get where we are. Arrogance is always way out of order but a little pride in our contribution to the safe operation of a lifetime of flying pax around the world is imho well deserved.
Safe flying everyone