[Northern Light]

I mean if that's the price for not having to deal with NIMBY's across the board, I think that's probably a good trade off. Far to much time is spent trying to appease the loudest voices.

The issue is not one of actually accommodating every objector to every thing...........

Nor is it even pretending to try.

Rather, its actually listening to complaints/critiques of whatever (transit service, government inefficiency, litter, homelessness, the state of parks/public realm or healthcare wait times etc.) and doing so with empathy, and giving serious consideration
to whether 'x' needs to be addressed and if so, how.

When one suggests 'appeasing' (obviously used as pejorative) one is saying essentially 'The World is flawlessly perfect, as is every idea, and there is no room for improvement). Now I know you didn't mean that; but when you broad brush every 'complaint' into one morass of unjustified self-pity, that's exactly what you're doing; dismissing every criticism of every thing.

The world is far too flawed for that.