> It's all a speed run to slowly realize that the terrible system we had, in fact had some good ideas / rules of the road that even empowered the little guy to some extent.

I think this is true of all reinvention, including the good stuff - reinvent for expedience/simplification/modernization, and recognize the things that were lost and re-integrate them as you learn of the consequence.

From Walter Isaacson's Elon biography: "Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn’t delete enough."[0]

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11871764-delete-any-part-or...