Different geographies have different requirements. You're not likely to need to face a week or more of no power after an ice storm in -10'C in Ireland.
There are occassional outages. But the pylons are designed with icing in the mind and that does the difference. More outages are due to poorly trimmed trees falling on wires than ice itself. That usually affects only small area and can be fixed quickly.
> We are living in a developed world with working infrastructure.
You're welcome, we bombed all your infrastructure into oblivion about 80 years ago, now it's all new! And also, your country is quite a lot denser than North America, so you can bury every single power cable (though you don't, obviously) and if you think -10C is cold, just wait until you see what much of North America experiences during the winter.
Eh? Most new houses in Ireland have them these days (it's more or less the only way to meet the efficiency requirements). There's never a backup.
> Same thing for induction stoves.
Eh? Again, these are pretty standard these days, and why would you need a backup?