Oddly enough, the housing structure of the SF Bay Area has a certain resemblance to ... the Boeing 737 Max. It's a system where some one parts/aspects/dimensions are kept at a certain backward (but once functional and "good") level while other parts/aspects/dimensions are automated/modernized to the hilt (basically to game regulation and so markets).

Elaborate efforts have been made to adapt the contradictory parts, efforts that worked adequately for a while but which are now coming apart, leaving a situation with no way forward at all.