The government is well-aware of how inflation erodes reporting thresholds. If you look at the obligation to report non-US bank accounts to FinCEN, they've indexed the penalties ($10,000 per line item) to inflation but not the $10,000 aggregate reporting threshold.
As a recently recognised Italian citizen, I have to agree--it's not the appropriate place to form a startup.
There's a surprising number of things that involve the legal system, and the legal system moves at a glacial pace--in some cases, taking months between when a ruling becomes final and when it becomes enforceable. Encounter any one of those situations, and it's going to be a huge time & resource drain for the company.
Perhaps it'd make sense to headquarter the startup in a more favourable country (Estonia?) and then have a major branch office in Italy (for climate and talent reasons).
There's a USENIX article from a year or two ago about the "Biscuit" research OS, which was written in golang.
There were clear compromises & performance degradations related to using a GC'ed language, but it definitely was interesting enough that you hope for more.
I wonder if the high prices you're seeing are because you're looking at black & white film.
B&W film is quite forgiving of under/over-exposure, and it allows for push processing. On the flip side, every type of film has its own developing time & some mild chemical preference.
Color film isn't very DIY friendly, but it does have the benefit of being very consistent from a processing perspective.
From what I've seen, it's usually a difference of 2x or 3x in price for black and white vs. color (C41).
Unfortunate that older devices didn't get it, but at least they're following future-proof best practices going forward.