This is such a stereotypical SF / US based perspective.

Easy to forget the rest of the world does not and never has ticked this way.

Don't get me wrong, optimism and thinking of the future are great qualities we direly need in this world on the one hand.

On the other, you can't outsmart physics.

We've conquered the purely digital realm in the past 20 years.

We're already in the early years of the next phase were the digital will become ever more multi-modal and make more inroads into the physical world.

So many people bring an old mindset to a new context, where maring of errors, cost of mistakes or optimizing the last 20% of a process is just so vastly different than a bit of HTML, JS and backend infra.