It’s kinda weird to sort of start rolling back to where some type of conservatism is actually a good thing.
For what it's worth, politics is more complex than conservation and change. The status quo is what got us here, so we must to better than merely conserve.
A friend sent me a casual lecture/talk a few years ago, and I remember that in one section the speaker talks about getting lens surgery and discovering they unknowingly had a similar-sounding condition, which the lenses had fixed.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHzX6juGyLQ @ 17:36