every single US government website being so poorly put together

So, just like the rest of the internet? A technology, that popularly speaking, has only been around for 30-years?

And you expect an entity, as huge and diverse as the US government, on federal/state/local levels, to be on the same page?

I can safely make 2 predictions about you:

• You're young, and that's A-OK. My kids are GenZ, maybe Alpha? They're my last, best hope for this world. But you haven't had the benefit of watching all this evolve. I was writing BASIC on a VIC-20 as a child. 3K RAM!
• You're not in tech. So again, you haven't had the benefit of trying to make all this shit work. GenXers physically and programmatically built the world you live in, on top of the work of the Boomers. I've hung cable drops and coded, all messy.

This clusterfuck is both expected and natural. Or did your science teacher tell you evolution was orderly? Or perhaps intelligently designed?

And anyone else wanting to complain, I'll remind you, this is how the government vs. the free market works.

Government works by rules that are not broken or bent. And this pisses some people off. Private enterprise works by what works and what doesn't. It's fast and fluid, and not designed to take "the people" in mind. And this pisses some people off.

Some tasks are appropriate for the government, some for the public sector. We're still working this shit out. (website_under_construction.gif)