Of course a statistically insignificant outcome feels more important when you're in the middle of it.

This is why anecdotes make for awful recommendations, and the people who are mostly exposed to the things that go wrong have a more negative view on things.

(See, also, doctors who deal with people who have massive alcoholism problems, and thus want to ban everyone from drinking. If you only get involved once people have problems, of course that makes a bigger effect on you.)