Most new inventions have good outcomes and bad outcomes. The benefit of letting them play out for a while is that you can see how things ultimately turn out, a

Most new inventions have good outcomes and bad outcomes. The benefit of letting them play out for a while is that you can see how things ultimately turn out, and cherry pick the aspects that are worth keeping, decide what aspects are worth keeping with changes, and outlaw aspects that are harmful. It’s a natural experiment where you keep the wins, cancel the loses, then repeat the process, making societies iteratively better. If you just pre-emptively ban everything before any significant real world harm is apparent, then you lose the ability to be selective and keep the wins. This is Europe’s big mistake. They’re too eager to ban on gut feel, which means they ban too much, which places their industries at a disadvantage relative to other countries where iterative innovation can continue.