And to your point, albeit with a more frivolous example, wind power has been subject to tests for aesthetic satisfaction that never have to be passed with such regularity by, say, telephone wires, roads or sidewalks, other forms of electricity infrastructure, big box stores, oil and gas infrastructure, gas stations, etc.
In some cases if you even ask the question you might be dismissed as a crank because, well, roads and sidewalks can crumble and fall into disrepair, but obviously we're not going to just get rid of sidewalks and roads. There's kind of an unspoken and shared understanding that the necessity of those forms of infrastructure trumps aesthetic concerns.
Status quo extremism might be summed up by the demand that new things have to pass novel and specific tests that would never be applied to the status quo.
In some cases if you even ask the question you might be dismissed as a crank because, well, roads and sidewalks can crumble and fall into disrepair, but obviously we're not going to just get rid of sidewalks and roads. There's kind of an unspoken and shared understanding that the necessity of those forms of infrastructure trumps aesthetic concerns.
Status quo extremism might be summed up by the demand that new things have to pass novel and specific tests that would never be applied to the status quo.