Yes, voters are very frequently wrong and support lots of policies that end up hurting everyone, such as rent controls.
What a bizarre non-sequitir to a vague topic. Are you incapable of following a topic or just being disingenuous when confronted with trying to argue that single humans and top down edicts are infallible?
In seriousness this is an example of the previous point. Rather than engaging with the issue the tech/DC industry seems to think they can wordplay their way out of it by quibbling about irrelevant technical details and people are primed to get extremely angry at grinfucking type behaviour nowadays.