Good shower thought and an interesting angle on boycotting the US. You just to use it as an excuse to cut out their products and call them dumb for still using such an arcane system all at the same time.
Funny, I had the exact opposite reaction. For me it's that nothing that is happening is new and if you look carefully nothing is weird or unusual, it's just the same ol' same ol' rehashed from a modern perspective.
This is a central philosophy of RDKit. You can take it with you from lab to lab and job to job.