[dkirkman]

Living with a type 1 for a number of years has given me a similar view. On the other hand, very real (and often hyped) advances really do happen. When pumps first came out, they were almost magic, ditto with continuous glucose monitoring.

[frabcus]

My dad died in the mid-1980s from type 1 diabetes, when I was a child.

Literally, because it was hard to take blood samples to monitor glucose and inject the right amount of insulin.

I'm told that with modern equipment (am guessing the continuous glucose monitoring you mention) he would almost certainly have survived.

So yes, not all advances like this end up working. But overall, within our short lifetimes, the best ones are creating substantial improvements.