Yeah if that’s all that needed replacing. The entire system is ancient, not just the disks, like:

Much more critical than the dated use of floppy disks is the system’s loop cable, which transmits data between the central servers and the trains and, according to Roccaforte, “has less bandwidth than an old AOL dial-up modem.”

The SFMTA’s website adds:

The loop cable is fragile and easily disturbed. This makes subway maintenance more difficult. This also means the system cannot be extended outside the subway, along surface rail, where currently we don’t have automatic train control.

That’s because the book was not written in English. The translation preserves a lot of the cadence of the original Chinese writing. You may not be used to it, but that’s not uncommon for translated works in general.

Yeah, if it has the same base gameplay loop as NMS I already know I won’t enjoy it, no matter how many features are built on top of it.

I don’t dislike all the changes but the removal of the left swipe gesture to access current channel information and pinned message is a huge negative change to me.

You sound like an absolutely exhausting person. If you don’t see the point then you can just glance at the post and not open the link. It’s not some deep analysis, it’s just a quick list for people to glance at for a few seconds. Your contrarian critiques don’t even make any sense. You think a game is overrated so…it shouldn’t count? And if story mode isn’t being played it also shouldn’t count? And if mods are being used it also shouldn’t count? In summary, you enjoy nothing and believe no one else should enjoy anything either.