Gregory's Serveryour passion for tech was grown in a different time, I think, is part of the issue.
You've got a passion for what was, and what could be again.
But what currently _is_, is an obnoxious hellpit fraught with safety issues of a social, dative, and technical sort that nobody with access to the purse strings wants to actually fix.
Janky piece of crap hardware like those "smartboards", and a lack of personnel/time to kidproof stuff.