The industrial revolution was not driven by government mandate but free enterprise and capitalism. Central government mandates have always resulted in failure.
You are correct of course but what we think and have learned really won’t matter and won’t stop this insanity.
There is a new generation in charge and they have been inculcated to believe this crap. They are also scared and believe changing everything must be done as an emergency action. There is no time for delay or question in their panicked and confused minds. Oddly, our generation’s miscreants taught them this over our otherwise feeble protests, also unheard. We were allowing the miscreants who choose to teach for some reason to brainwash our children and grand children with this clap trap.
Mankind blunders through a series of mistakes and only slightly recovers long enough to forget everything. In my working life, when a big mistake we had seen before was made yet again, I would say that only people have memories, corporations do not. Only what enforced and taught by tradition from people to people can endure. There is not enough time or discipline to even use let alone pay attention to organizational learning devices. Much better if you can find mentors and enforcers to pass down and preserve traditions.
Given a free hand or even given a book of instructions people will go off and do what they think is right at the time and change what has gone before never once seriously considering the reason it was done and why it should not be changed.
All of this has gone on for millennia and will so long as man if given free will.