It’s why some old movies look good even at 4K

Couple other good examples of this: the original Tremors and the music video for “Last Christmas” by Wham. Both look shockingly good for their age.

Especially in NYC. Bike delivery has been a thing there long before uberdashhub. Hell, it was a fucking plot point in Spiderman 2 back in 2004:

Those shitty old tiger hand holds kind of worked like that.

Tbf, even if we stopped literally right now that doesn’t address what’s already there so even best case scenario would still be a little of column a, a little of column b.

Honestly I think your first point is just a subset of something larger and even more basic - “we’ve always done it this way. Change is scawwy. Different bad. Are you implying I was wrong before?” Etc.