Really well captured. It's like we all want to have nice things, without having to make them ourselves. I'm not in US but in Europe, and I feel like many count

Really well captured. It's like we all want to have nice things, without having to make them ourselves. I'm not in US but in Europe, and I feel like many countries are like a 50-year 100M LOC codebase with fragile dependencies on module boundaries. The inertia is massive and refactoring even a small part of it requires enormous effort, and there will always be people unhappy about any change and a maze of laws making stuff difficult. You need to really think big and have that inner energy to persuade people to change anything. Most people (me including) just don't have, most of the time, enough mental energy for thinking big about the world around after doing their 8h of busywork and 2h in commute to make ends meet. Most people at their (non-tech) works are not told to think big either; hell, they are probably discouraged to, and are told to juggle an infinite backlog of low-impact "JIRA tickets" and keep the status quo.