If you want an example of a sacrifice caused by regulation before technology had fully caught up, banning sperm whale oil in automatic car transmissions comes to mind: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/17/archives/transmission-pro...
Various consumer review sites were regularly doing pieces on newer detergents that maybe-kinda work.
We didn’t have an answer when the bans swept the country. It took a while for things to catch up. Then it was fine again.