My issue with fluff pieces like this is that there are plenty of established tools in our lives that would not be available if they started out today. Acetaminophen (or Tylenol by it's brand name) is often touted as a drug that would never pass modern FDA regulations if it were introduced today due to it's issues with liver toxicity and link to Reye's Syndrome.

We make products and services with what we have available at the time, that doesn't necessarily mean that they are an indefinite solution, nor does it mean that we are going to hold our archaic solutions to the same standard we do with our new and improved solutions.