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Just many more things to go wrong, and now if there is a broadband problem, you can't use your landline to call support, making a mobile phone a necessity.
And when your rely on wifi calling it's even worse.
FTTP hopefully will bring some reliability improvements as people leave copper behind completely, but once upon a time you could rely on the landline, now, whilst many still have something that resembles a landline, it's just an emulation and is now far removed from what it once was
Of course the use of landlines has dropped so much there is no profit left in it, only the expense of maintaining all the equipment. I do think though that methods of communication have become far too complicated and fragmented, and one day, due to some emergency situation, we will suffer for not having a simple standard way everyone is connected.
Our FTTP has been much more reliable than the old FTTC, and our copper phone ilne which we still have is dire at times with crackling, but it works.