Comment by arendtio

Well, for a single person, yes. But for most people on the train?!?

Sadly, this attitude of designing mediocre and over-complicated systems and then sticking to them no matter the cost is very German nowadays. And we hate it. But we can't help ourselves. And this does not affect trains alone; it also affects our tax system, every government process, and often businesses.

We are unable to design better systems; we are unable to design simpler systems, and improvising is a skill we have eradicated from our minds.