Mark Brader wrote:

Or a passenger information system that provides the information that's
easy to provide instead of the information people actually want.

Quite possibly, and quite possibly it's existed since before it was
practical to provide more than a split-flap display showing the
destination, but not the time, of the next train - or, indeed, nothing
at all.

The UK has, these days, pretty advanced electronic passenger
information systems at a lot of stations. Some of this is due to
updating, but a lot is because there wasn't anything (at all) there
beforehand.

Neil