I'm amazed that, one year in, there's still no clear benefit from the new situation. I don't think you should be amazed. One thing that was always clear about

I'm amazed that, one year in, there's still no clear benefit from the new situation. I don't think you should be amazed. One thing that was always clear about Brexit was that many of the potential costs would be felt quickly, because they would result from the immediate loss of benefits of EU membership, but many of the potential benefits would not be felt for years after the vote, because it would need several years to hammer out the exit arrangements and whatever future relationship the EU and UK were going to have, then probably several more years for the UK to start making significant new trade deals or major changes to its domestic legislation that it wasn't free to make as an EU member, and then several more years for people and businesses to respond to any new incentives and opportunities that were created. Personally I've always been quite ambivalent about Brexit. I think there were going to be some big pros and some big cons whether we remained or left, and how any new relationships were handled was probably going to matter more to our future success than whether we were "in" or "out". However I can certainly understand why some people who weren't exactly fans of the EU still voted to remain because they didn't want the costs of a long period of change without really knowing what was waiting at the end.