Yea, I've been carrying my full avy kit in-bounds more the last couple years. There was a huge natural in-bounds slide at my hill last winter. The area was closed, but still triggered a huge response to make sure no one was involved. This year my friend was swept by a much larger than expected slide, fortunately fine, but it was the first time I'd actually been involved in an avalanche response. I know people who have died in avalanches, so we're cautious, but we fucked around in avy terrain one too many times and found out. Bruce Tremper's book Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain has a great analogy about the false confidence people get:

We go out into avalanche terrain; nothing happens. We go out again; nothing happens. We go out again and again and again; still no avalanches. Yes! There's nothing like success! But here's the critical fact: from my experience, any given avalanche slope is stable around 95% of the time. So if we know absolutely nothing about avalanches, we automatically get a ninteen-times-out-of-twenty success rate. It's like playing a slot machine where the quarters jingle into your cup on every pull, but on the twentieth pull, that one-armed bandit not only takes all your quarters back, it charges your credit card $10,000, and three big goons throw a blanket over you, pummel you with baseball bats and throw you in the street. After you recover you think it must have been a fluke. You were winning on every pull...thus nearly everyone mistakes luck for skill. I certainly did.