My brother used to do utility plumbing — literally, laying sewers. I know they think this. It's not them that's the issue; it's short-sighted municipal governments, it's contracts, it's "Well, who's paying for it?", it's liability issues, it's these and countless other little inanities.

That said, it kinda blows my mind that someone on HN would actually think I was talking about the people laying the sewer line when I said, "Well, while we're here..." Were you straw-manning, or did you really just not think that one through?