Despite muting loads of things I'm starting to see an awful lot of posts along the lines of "yeah you can fix that but what about *long list of other stuff*, it's all too much and there's no point trying".
Yeah, there is. Take the original UNIX approach - do one thing, and do it well. If enough people do that then the list gets a lot smaller.
This applies to politics just as much as technology; at local, national, and international levels too.