Comment by toomuchtodo

> Or is a large scale disaster the only way to make people understand the urgency?

Yes. And a controller is going to get scapegoated (likely ruining their life) when a few hundred people die in the process, versus the failing system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/business/air-traffic-cont... | https://archive.today/bFcAh

(Obviously, I would rather be wrong about this)