Trams, trolley buses and electric trains been around for a long time.
The car is not the solution.
People have to get out of the car and onto the streets.
How communities are built.

It doesn't actually cite the Bible, either. "My preacher says the Bible says..." is like "my high-school chemistry teacher says a paper was published in a journal that says..."

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I would counter that end user pressure is a real reason. You can't just flip a switch and expect everyone to be able to cope. For a change that major, you need a lot of prep work, training, and gradual changes. A full, successful changeover of that scale could take a year or two.

2/ I got comfortable due to repeated use, but then I didn't use it much for another dozen years and even a 2 month stay in a Paris lab has yet to bring it all back - this in part due to labs running in english and too many preferring to exercise their english!

1/ I have a very similar experience over decades, having moved to the UK at 18 and not using French professionally for a dozen years, only during holidays. It is interesting - one's vocab shrinks and turns of phrases are lost. My first science talk in French took me back to being a PhD student!

They are in trouble anyway as spreadsheets not a good way to store data 😉

Section by section since that builds a user base

True but you save a lot in SW sub costs and hardware upgrades. Plus a gui is a gui