Comment by Trasmatta

> no amount of patching the system will fix this.

> maybe we should consider the possibility that we are due for a refactor

People in tech need to stop with those analogies. A government is not a codebase. You can not apply the principles of "refactoring" and "patching" in the same way. It just doesn't work like that. But the problem is we have a bunch of people (some malicious, some clueless) trying to do exactly that.