Wordpress is clunky but it never broke backwards compatibility.
HN grumbles about Drupal because many got burnt by picking the wrong horse. Drupal was the biggest CMS in the world and like a safe bet until they told their users they would have to rewrite their 7 code to go to 8 and their users decided they would rewrite to WordPress[1]. Drupal never regained the trust they lost. They extended the life of d7 over and over but never made a compelling replacement. To this day, 7 is still more widely deployed than 8,9 or 10 ever were[2].
I think it's interesting to observe the fate that Python 3 narrowly avoided. Python 3 wasn't a compelling replacement until at least 3.5. In a nearly parallel universe they're all using torch.rb instead of pytorch.
5% of a transit authority's budget would be a lot of money! Advertising made £158 million for Transport for London in 2019, much less than 5% of their budget.
The drone used in that situation is the "Little Ripper Lifesaver" which supposedly sells for around $50k[1].
From TFA, the cost for the boat was around $12k. That means this is about 4x more expensive, not 20x. That doesn't include the droppable inflatable boat but that is probably not going to break the bank either.
I use two of the ISPs discussed in the article, Three and Vodafone Broadband. As is discusses, Three is attempting to roll out IPv6 right now, but making a real hash of it. My new phone sometimes gets an IPv6 connection, but it's usually slower or non-functional, in a way that causes most apps to hang to for 10-30 secs until presumably falling back to IPv4. Android really doesn't allow you to see what is going on, nor does it allow you to disable IPv6. I only figured it out because my home WiFi is Vodafone who have no IPv6 at all, and enabling a VPN with good IPv6 such as Google One on the mobile connection solves the problem.
I suspect this sort of thing causes a lot of e-waste, as most people are more likely to blame and replace their device.
HN grumbles about Drupal because many got burnt by picking the wrong horse. Drupal was the biggest CMS in the world and like a safe bet until they told their users they would have to rewrite their 7 code to go to 8 and their users decided they would rewrite to WordPress[1]. Drupal never regained the trust they lost. They extended the life of d7 over and over but never made a compelling replacement. To this day, 7 is still more widely deployed than 8,9 or 10 ever were[2].
I think it's interesting to observe the fate that Python 3 narrowly avoided. Python 3 wasn't a compelling replacement until at least 3.5. In a nearly parallel universe they're all using torch.rb instead of pytorch.
[1]https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/did-breaking-backward...
[2]https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal