I agree that that’s the most important change and that there’s reason to think people in Constellation/the Bay Area in general might systematically under-attend to policy developments, but I think the most likely explanation for the responses concentrating on other things is that I explicitly asked about technical developments that I missed because I wasn’t in the Bay, and the respondents generally have the additional context that I work in policy and live in DC, so responses that centered policy change would have been off-target.
I agree that that’s the most important change and that there’s reason to think people in Constellation/the Bay Area in general might systematically under-attend to policy developments, but I think the most likely explanation for the responses concentrating on other things is that I explicitly asked about technical developments that I missed because I wasn’t in the Bay, and the respondents generally have the additional context that I work in policy and live in DC, so responses that centered policy change would have been off-target.