On a mailing list I'm on, someone was arguing that contracted Braille was a huge mistake. According to him, blind children aren't learning math or history or literature because they're spending so much time learning the intricacies of Braille contractions, and we had a golden opportunity to do something about it a few decades ago with the effort to standardize English Braille.

I feel like Braille, daylight savings time, and U. S. democracy have one thing in common: lots of people are deeply unhappy with the status quo and wish someone would fix things already, but people haven't come to anything close to a consensus in terms of what kind of change they want to see, if any.