I guess its a case of be careful what you wish for. Every time something gets easier it brings in people who were'nt quite up to doing it before. My "overlanding" experience goes back to 1970 when I went to Morocco 2 up on a 250 two stroke Yamaha. No hard luggage, no GPS, no Lonely Planet, no big tanks, no mp3 players, no mobile phones, no internet (and our haircuts were checked at the Ceuta border in case we were degenerate hippys). Everybody genuinely thought we were stupid to attempt it. Bit by bit over the decades I've seen equipment and infrastructure improve to the point that last time I went to Morocco (2yrs ago) I don't even think I checked the oil.
All of these changes were ones I welcomed at the time as they took a little uncertainty out of the next trip but at the same time its brought in people who wouldn't have considered setting out without a whole raft of backups.A few years ago I met a German guy and his girlfriend at the Western Sahara / Mauritanian border. She had fallen and broken her collerbone. She got a lift to Nouhadibou in a 4x4 and flew home. The German AA recovered the bike (a GS BMW!) Without the ability to do this many people would not undertake such a trip.
My rule of thumb observation over the last 35 yrs has been that whatever is cutting edge foolhardyness now becomes easy to do ten years later and you'll see others having their hand held as part of an organised commercial tour ten years after that. They might be using vintage Enfields with wicker baskets as hard lugggage and a tweed riding suits but its more likely that they'll have goretex suits and be riding GS's
It's not just GS's that pr**ks ride. Two weeks ago I was lane splitting a holdup on the M40 when I was overtaken by a courier who physically pushed me out of the way to get past, gave me a one fingered salute and twenty meters up the road kicked the door of a car that hadn't pulled over far enough.