Agreed. You can have all the best tools and you still aren't guaranteed "success"

I agree with your normie sentiments but I also think the extreme language and amount of force being used by the Trump administration are also something most normies disagree with. People want civility and everything is opposite of that right now

Thousands of words to just tell me that nothing changed

“It’s our most revolutionary nothing changed in the history of iPhone.”

The only solution I see is some decentralized way of governing. And even if this gains mass support, I still forsee some centralized way of how rules are enforced that can also cut off your relationship as well. Efficiency v.s privacy tradeoff I guess.