Governments currently have a critical lack of ambition, they have been captured by global corporations and made to believe only privately owned entities can solve complex problems. This is why software engineering looks like an impossibly hard problem.
It doesn't help that the way to win elections now is to start a culture war, not to make the country they govern a better place (see the UK).
It doesn't help that the way to win elections now is to start a culture war, not to make the country they govern a better place (see the UK).