Not as a "well actually" but just a different example: I regularly see Mennonites on Amtrak, which is maybe out of necessity, but their norms are very different from the diverse people on the train.
I don't like sharing space on the road. I'm generally a calm pacifist until I'm around other drivers
I've read about this exact thing, people with debilitating conditions who are offered state of the art tech to be implanted, but the company eventually folds and they stop maintaining or supporting it, so the people are left with a useless implant
And where you can rebuild a society someday assuming this doesn't end in the complete destruction of Gaza