Yeah there's too much stuff to restore.

Every time anyone wants to do anything new in my city, there's a choir of old people moaning about the removal of old stuff.

Seriously.. if they want to keep that shit, put it in a museum. We don't need your old railways in the center of the city for memorials. We don't use them. You don't use them. They haven't been used for 70 years. The same kind of shit is present in each and every city throughout Europe. It has no preservation value. We can remember your great grand uncle's achievement in other ways. Take a photo and look at it as fondly as much as you want.

It's apparently wildly surprising that humans were all over Europe thousands of years ago. Come on. They had feet, of course they shat in the shrubbery where we live. We do not have to preserve all of it.

I surely don't hope future generations dig out the shit I've posted online.

When they invented LIDAR scanning and flew over Germany, they found a lot of old stuff in the dense forests that had never even been investigated. It was silently decided not to even attempt to dig all that shit out. Good call Germany. We don't need any more stone axeheads in the museum. They're not that different, and I don't care if you can trace your lineage to the man who made it. We're not keeping that rock.

People should have a right to be forgotten.

Ötzi never asked to be dug up. People made stories about how he died of cold. Other people say it was sacrificial. The latest I've read was that he a tumor in the ass.

Have some decency. Leave that shit alone. The wearing of time is prettier than restoration anyway. It's a solid reminder. Restoration of artifacts is like botox to a 70 years old.. you're gonna look like shit either way.