This is widely-cited and has become a bit of a trope among many people here in Switzerland, but one famous example that isn't usually looked upon with pride tod

This is widely-cited and has become a bit of a trope among many people here in Switzerland, but one famous example that isn't usually looked upon with pride today is the extremely delayed granting of suffrage to women in Switzerland (1971 nationally, 1991 in the last canton), or the current same-sex marriage referendum considered long-overdue by some. There are a few other human/civil rights along this vein that, at least to me, point to the possibility of a better system that can balance direct democracy (at least in the sense of modern Switzerland, California on a state level, etc.) with some longstanding sense of inherent rights.