ain't like they were doing anything with it

you know what they should've done buy a bunch of lightweight internal box magazine hunting rifles in 7mm Remington Magnum, put a fixed 10x mil dot scope on there, and issue two per squad. keep the weight to about 7.5 lb per rifle total package. this can be done for under $2000 per gun even if you're buying gucci shit however this should be unnecessary for a properly equipped infantry unit. where's the M240B? 60mm mortars? were they restricted from using anything but carbines by some gay ROE?

now we're in this uncomfortable state where a settings page maybe has a save button but often doesn't and there's no consistency. the button, if it does exist, is not properly designed so you notice it. like it'll be below the page view and a bland color so it doesn't stand out if the button doesn't exist there's often no visual indication that your settings *were* saved, or any indication of what you changed, or any way to easily revert. yes there are some pages that do this well but they stand out as exceptions I have no idea how we got here but my wild ass guess is it's fundamentally because of the preponderance of dogshit web frameworks where the dev is totally disconnected from the page design and just uses whatever the default is I'm okay with not needing an explicit save button but just taking the button away and silently saving things is not good design either