This to me sounds like someone whose job it is to dig holes and fill them back in, asking for an improved shovel, or exercises for his lower back. There is not

This to me sounds like someone whose job it is to dig holes and fill them back in, asking for an improved shovel, or exercises for his lower back. There is nothing wrong with improving shovels, exercises are great. But why are we digging holes? :) What does using a modern subset of C++ prevent us from achieving, that we really want? Are programming tools the bottleneck of modern society? Do we really need 100s of computer games released each year, 1000s of funded start-ups trying to become unicorns, a 'metaverse'? Do we need all that? Or would we rather have UBI, land value tax and enough sanity in society so that women choose to have children again? You tell me :) If you say 'we can have both', can we really?