And nothing of value was lost

That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

Switzerland requires “wet” signatures too

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show “impact”. At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.