Hard to argue with someone who knows

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Quick aside: "Hey restaurant and bar owners, while Covid had a part to play, you guys had already over-saturated the market. Many of you were struggling pre-Covid, but it's way easier to blame somebody else when your dream tapas bar doesn't quite live up to expectations."

Exactly. There would be a lot of owners of doomed-to-fail small businesses who struck it lucky with the wage subsidy scheme. It kept them afloat long after their natural end, and for some gave them delusions of relevance/feasibility.

Another thing that often strikes me is how personally unappealing are the complaining hospitality and tourism whingers. As potential customers we are unlikely to patronise outfits whose owners are so sour and bitter that we would cross the road to avoid them.