Readit Newshttps://twitter.com/benbjohnson/status/1508927916561743872
It's a recurring theme with SQLite. Many developers are on-board with using it as a database but when you tell them that they also have to SSH in and use a CLI exclusively then they are turned off. Postlite is meant to alleviate that pain.
And what exactly kept the families from just packing up and leaving? It would seem that it must have offered a better value proposition that anything else if people chose to stay there. Unless they were slaves, your whole point is moot.
The railroad companies claim to have spent billions on implementation but it's not available yet. As the article says, they're not allowed to collaborate or share implementation costs because of trust regulations. Also keep in mind the scale of the deployment. There's hundreds of thousands of cars on the track today, and putting something on each car isn't something that takes an afternoon.
The government can't make it happen by creating a regulation and a deadline.
edit: Fixed definition of PTC.
Now it's near impossible to see what changes they do over original WP core.