Because most people have a status quo bias and instinctively want to embalm the world in the technological state it was in when they were in their 20s and early

Because most people have a status quo bias and instinctively want to embalm the world in the technological state it was in when they were in their 20s and early 30s. A new technology always turns over somebody's applecart. Most people don't have the long view necessary for understanding that all technological progress is good.