I mean not long ago they shut down video production for a month after being called out for being shit at doing their job. Things haven't really changed much since then.
I wouldn't call it a dead end. It's the kind of small discoveries that, when put together with all the past and future small discoveries, will eventually lead to progress.
What actually happens is that some random power tripping TSA agent decides to annoy the fuck out of people he doesn't like, and when challenged he is protected by this rule.
10 whole GB of storage? I understand now why you need such an ultimate compression technology, this is an insurmountable amount of data in these harrowing times where you can buy a flash card the size of a fingernail that can hold that amount about 25 times.
They can either offer a living wage or they can keep crying about it.
I genuinely don't care what a bunch of losers complain about.