This is one of the "realest" problems humanity has.

The dinosaurs went extinct. They died because of something they couldn't predict and had no control over. We have now gotten better at predicting asteroids and the dart tests show that we finally have control over the situation.

To contrast, I'll use climate change as an example of "a real problem".

Like asteroid impacts, climate change is another existential threat, but we've been able to predict the effects of it for nearly a hundred years and we've always had control over it (all we have to do is agree to change how we generate energy, build things and move things around). On some level, climate change has always been less of a problem for us, because it's a slow process the solution is so obvious.

Asteroids will happen suddenly and without warning if we aren't tracking every single object we can all the time... It's like we've been living on thin ice our whole lives, in constant danger, we just never think about it. We've never before had this kind of possibility of survival vs an asteroid.