25 or so years from now, over glasses of Kentuck bourbon - to consider this:

from Ken
... be 20 - 30 years before that determination can be made with any degree of validity. My guess is that the verdict will be it turned out rather well.
we will see how all of our WAGs have turned out. And eventually, you and I will get together - unless we end up at different destinations.

The point is - the serious point - is what you have said more than once - impact of today's decisions cannot be measured with any accuracy tomorrow, a year from now, or even a decade. So, the third T in METT-TC also comes into play - and societies (especially those in more "primitive" countries) often change slowly, if at all, over decades.