I think that there is a vacuum waiting to be filled, and that the corollary to Joni Mitchell's line in "Big Yellow Taxi"

You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

will apply.

ie you don't know what you haven't got 'til you see it.

As A R Geezer said recently, the US needs an updated Henry George

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson