Not quite the same thing in the end, though.
For all intents and purposes, it is. I do not know a single person who I would term "proficient with technology" who is afraid of experimenting or overly concerned about making mistakes when using something new.
In my experience, people who are "good with technology" are always curious hackers and tinkerers who are unafraid of breaking things, and are never satisfied with simply using the tool: they must look under the hood and they must understand how it works.
I would say the same principle applies far beyond computer technology: math, engineering, physics, music, etc...
The vast majority of them max out their skillset with being a consumer (e.g. social media apps) and install a bit of malware along the way.
The worse thing that's every happened to me because of my lack of fear was that I fried the motherboard on a friend's Mac back in the 90's by plugging a parallel printer into a SCSI port. Oops! Fortunately it was under warranty.
Anectdotal example: On one hand I sometimes get almost mad when I try to help my parents with computer problems (especially via phone) because they didn't even bothered with randomly trying somewhat problem-related buttons or options.[0] They just get paralyzed (by the fear they could break something) because something happens what isn't routine, even if the solution could be found within minutes even by non tech people.
On the other hand I'm glad about the same behaviour when they call me to ask if some mail or website is legitimate or not. About half of the calls are false positive scam suspicions, but I'm happy looking into them, as long it helps them not getting scammed.