Well the solution to our "not enough bits" problem has been generally available for 20 years. Signed bigint time would cover from the Permian Period until 290 million years from now, down to ms precision. That ought to be good enough for most use cases.
Ask your partner to help carve out time for you and the family to do something together- play cards, board games, cook together, whatever. Something where conversation can happen but isn't the main focus.
The problem is not cars that use software - that is inevitable and OTA updates are far superior (if properly secure) than having to take the thing into a shop.
The problem is these people can't or won't write databases and systems that transfer from one data center to another. That stinks of either incompetence or bad faith.
Maxwell asked if it was all prints failing it just the benchy. OP replied "everything is failing".