They aren’t better off. That’s what makes this whole thing so dire — there’s value in being different, just for the sake of being different, but nobody is going

They aren’t better off. That’s what makes this whole thing so dire — there’s value in being different, just for the sake of being different, but nobody is going to willingly choose to do something materially worse just on the off-chance that the Current Best Practice happens to have some horrible, unseen downside 50 years later.