What an uninspired article. Doesn't dig into the regulations and explain why they exist in the first place before dismissing them out of hand. They don't even do a good job of saying what the regulations actually are outside of having bigger cabin sizes. They complain that the NA regulation is written by and for the US but are completely uncritical of EU regulation which I guess wasn't written by and for the EU? No cost breakdowns, no data that's even vaguely suggestive that elevator prices or space requirements are a limiting factor in housing developments. No entertaining alternative ways to fix the issue and why they wouldn't work. Weird insinuation that NA elevator manufacturers get their parts from China which is bad but no word that international manufacturers don't do the same thing.

The author could be completely right on all points but isn't remotely persuasive to anyone who doesn't already agree with them.