I am confused, is this piece making fun of Floppy disks or just documenting a fact?
If it's the former, I'd discourage the criticism because Floppy disks are working, and there's no good reason to redo the whole thing and potentially create a lot of bugs, that you'll then spend a wormhole amount of money fixing.
Change for the sake of change is a bad idea. Especially for equipment that has to be ultra-reliable.
But are they? How many hours have very expensive machines been grounded because the disk drive got misaligned and said "Disk Read error in drive A:. Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Floppy Disks seem like a type of security practice. Nobody can install ransomware (or anything else) on your plane if the devices are barely even manufactured anymore.
A lot of organizations bought everything they could get a few years ago (especially airlines and U.S. military were buying like crazy and paying incredible prices). Now they have basically tons of floppy's stuffed in some warehouses around the world and it should last for a decade or even longer. This should be enough time to get a different medium chosen and certified.
If it's the former, I'd discourage the criticism because Floppy disks are working, and there's no good reason to redo the whole thing and potentially create a lot of bugs, that you'll then spend a wormhole amount of money fixing.
Change for the sake of change is a bad idea. Especially for equipment that has to be ultra-reliable.