I'm not sure late unification is necessarily the determing factor here. e.g. look at Italy
something so sexy needs to be marked as NSFW
For example, anyone could use Let's Encrypt to get a trusted certificate, so what makes this trustworthy? Or why not trust everyone that signs their own certificates with a program like OpenSSL?
In a similar vein, why can we not use the technology of RAM to prolong the life-cycle of an SSD?
I'm not sure late unification is necessarily the determing factor here. e.g. look at Italy