That's the nature of having existing players with significant market share but no standardized spec. OTel was/is in the same boat where in order to be a successful project, first you have to integrate with the products orgs are already using.
Voice of 1: I prefer Slack so it's closer my work comms. Having a shared channel with y'all is infinitely easier than hopping between workspaces or apps.
The cities would have been responsible for building sidewalks to the bridge. If you look around where the bridge is on modern maps you'll see that a lot of the residential area on the North side of the bridge (Richfield) just doesn't have sidewalks.