I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.
What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
I reformated that so much I forgot to include my dissatisfaction was mostly with e-bikes and the associated electronics lmao
But yeah, bottom brackets are ridicolous. Only reason we ever moved away from BSA was cost cutting and now that everyone and their grandma has creaky high end bikes people just return to BSA anyways.
I tell you, if I ever become emperor of a country it will have the world largest bicycle industry and everything is in absolutely standardized parts