It's such a sad state of things, really where ham radio should be going but instead it feels like things just get stuck in the past(unless you're talking FT-8 b

It's such a sad state of things, really where ham radio should be going but instead it feels like things just get stuck in the past(unless you're talking FT-8 but even that is less about experimentation and more just another mode to get contacts on). Elecraft gear has pretty good output/inputs but it's spendy, it's a hard ask for someone to fork out $1k for a 10-15W radio. The whole bandwidth/symbol rate thing is also just incredibly short sighted, a number of other counties have started to change things but here in the US we can't even seem to get something as simple as that updated.