This is, in reality, the biggest problem. A lot of modern technologies have built-in assumptions that most people promoting them didn't ever think through. "Eve

This is, in reality, the biggest problem. A lot of modern technologies have built-in assumptions that most people promoting them didn't ever think through. "Everything will be updated all the time, everywhere" is one of those assumptions. "Security" people who yammer about MitM attacks don't give the slightest fuck about that other side of the coin, because that's not what they're paid for. However, a lot of these assumptions have costs that will compound over time. What is the cost of constantly loosing old media, for example? What is the cost of perfectly good consumer devices being rendered unusable via infrastructure updates? What is the cost of constantly rising complexity? This is not discussed with any level of honesty.