Maybe he's being inaccurately hyperbolic by saying "all" and "exclusively". I'd agree that your disagreement there is reasonable. But I wonder, if he said "90

Maybe he's being inaccurately hyperbolic by saying "all" and "exclusively". I'd agree that your disagreement there is reasonable. But I wonder, if he said "90% of our institutions" instead, how would you feel about his claims? It seems that core areas sometimes go the way you're describing, but no peripheral areas do, and we're building a lot more of them, but no more cores.