If you could make a nuke in your back yard and hide it in your pocket the world would look a lot different now. Digital technology is everywhere, going to be a whole lot harder to deter that.
You might be able to hide like a hundred drones in your backyard. Enough to kill a couple hundred people, maybe.
You cannot and will never be able to hide millions of drones in your backyard. That’s the relevant difference here. And that is not a mere quantitative difference, that is a qualitative difference that fundamentally changes the situation.