I guarantee management was rushing this product out the door to meet deadlines without adequate testing and without running a pilot program. That's the only way this could realistically happen.
I suspect this one falls squarely on management. But I bet they didn't take the blame.
Trolley buses are a weird niche. They require permanent overhead cable infrastructure like trams do but don't have the other benefits of trams - higher capacity, greater speed, better ride and no tyre pollution. I figure if you're going to install a trolley bus route you probably might as well install rails at the same time and get the benefits of trams. (Aka streetcars for the North Americans out there)
The City of London did assessments on trolley buses and found that the added capacity of trams made them the better choice pretty much anywhere trolley buses were proposed, despite the slightly higher install cost.
There's no requirement that he was previously convicted of insurrection - that's a separate charge and carries a higher bar. The constitution only requires that the court concludes as part of this case that he was involved in an insurrection. And there's a wealth of evidence showing that he was so the courts will almost certainly come to that conclusion.
Don't blame your dad - however much you resent him it's not like he has any influence over the economy. Instead blame the super rich who have real influence and are actively pushing policy to widen this social divide.
As far as I know only the US would even humor such stupidity. In my country (Australia) they wouldn't even let it go to court since the common law right to legal justice overrides contract law.
OP describes how primitive computing was in the 80s and 90s, and speaks of a number of developments which appeared "leading up to the year 2000". Let me give examples of all of these developments which were actually from the 1970s or earlier:
The VAX-11/780 was introduced in 1977, pretty much introduced the concept of a modern MMU and memory model - although there were plenty of precursors. They were very popular and widespread.
Lisp's been around since 1958. It (and other languages) used memory managed runtimes similar in concept to today's ones.
IBM's VM/370 OS introduced virtual machines on IBM mainframes in 1972. They were an integral part of the OS and CPU architecture, probably more so than current VMs which are kind of tacked on as an afterthought.
Modular programming languages were a big topic in this era. One that comes to mind is Modula-2 which was first introduced in 1977, but much programming language development at the time was focused on modularity and code reuse.
My point is that I think these advancements were made a lot earlier than OP's saying. Sure, some of them took a while to spread but we pretty much started the 80s with all of this already in place.
A perfect temperature to slow cook beef ragu!