general aviation today is archaic specifically because of regulation making it impossible to innovate in the space. In the US leaded gas is still used. Relaxing

general aviation today is archaic specifically because of regulation making it impossible to innovate in the space. In the US leaded gas is still used. Relaxing the rules and allowing people to experiment with things such as hybrid electric propulsion gets us much closer to the ideal of carbon free aviation. Regarding optimization, I always see this in software. People ruining the system chasing 1% improvements and locking in a local optimum by making it harder to perform the design level optimization that actually moves the needle. Imagine your CRUD system is full of selectN+1s and some well meaning engineer comes along and rewrites a bunch of code paths in raw SQL, making it harder to adopt automatic joining.