Kids start drinking watered down fru-fru coffee, right after the last early dynastic king falls and Sumer is taken over by Lagash?

Sounds to me like watered down coffee is a pretty reliable indicator for the collapse of the current state.

Well I don’t mind at all.

Developing technologies means mitigating negative externalities. You don’t just design a pressure cooker and ignore the possibility it might explode because you “can’t force people to not leave it unattended”, you spend the extra time and money to design and install a safety valve.

Most humans don’t have more than 3 legs.