I've been using noatime forever (since 2002 or so) on my laptops/desktops and IIRC also all the servers that I set up myself, and a couple other servers I just checked have relatime (Debian default?), without any issue, although all of those machines only ran software of my choice and thus a relatively limited range.
I even started somewhat relying on atime being the (otherwise non-existant at the time) "inode creation time" when using 'noatime', and was a bit upset when I realized that mounts created with "mount --bind" would lose the noatime setting (an explicit "mount -o remount,noatime" is required on the new mount point).
I also used Samba around 2002, but am not sure whether I used noatime already with it.
I even started somewhat relying on atime being the (otherwise non-existant at the time) "inode creation time" when using 'noatime', and was a bit upset when I realized that mounts created with "mount --bind" would lose the noatime setting (an explicit "mount -o remount,noatime" is required on the new mount point).
I also used Samba around 2002, but am not sure whether I used noatime already with it.