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We can't shift back to normal. It was never normal. It was just a different flavour of crazy. Sure, it's easier to see this new crazy, but it's also more honest. Sliding back is nothing but regression, and THAT scares me.
Those who actually push for regression are scary. But they don't truly push for regression, they push for a cherry picked and misremembered version of the past. And the bits they would like to keep vs rollback are different from how I would choose. But a lot of the elements of what we have now are not improvements on the past and I think we need to figure out how to undo some of the damage we've done.
And I think part of the reason we have so many scary regressive people is because they feel the ways that the world has gotten worse, even if they misdiagnose it.
They don't know they're pushing for regression, but that's what it is. And a fool can cause as much chaos as a villain.
I've worked in programming for long enough to know that one person's bug is often a security feature, or a feature someone else literally can't work without. Sometimes, they're the one that asked for it. If that gets rolled back, it would cause regression issues and that's literally what they're called.