2022: Call my doctors office, tell receptionist I am running five minutes late, apologize, hang up
2026: Call doctors office, get routed to a new company-wide "AI assistant," navigate phone tree, get put on hold to wait for a human at a call center, wait 6 minutes, explain to human agent what is going on, get put on hold while human agent calls my physical doctors office to tell them for me
This is not better
Something that really impacted me visiting Japan was that they use the same PNG for EVERYTHING, pins, standees, keychains... and always with static poses
At least some fanartists give draws a soul... and better quality merch