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NONE of the details in this story are embellished, they are all simulated in-game
This is the crucial thing that distinguishes DF stories from LP writeups of other games. Other games provide maybe some suggestive details and you have to read between the lines. DF stories have to be pruned down from the huge amount of detail in the world.
There's probably lots of neat uses for gold at the moment that aren't financially viable due to the cost of the raw material.
That's the door between train carriages, not in the station. I've never experienced an issue with the fake button but I'm going to pay attention to that sensor now!
Their aesthetic was shaped by the tools they had
In Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, set in the 2400's, most people work 20 hour weeks with the rest of their time spent on hobbies. A minority of people, whose jobs are their passions, work significantly more than 20 hours, this is termed Voking (as in, to be a vocateur) and is considered kinda unusual.
Reading between the lines, I think full automation is entirely possible in the setting but the world naturally settled on a 20 hour week to give everyone the benefits of purpose etc.
That's be pretty cool. Or a step further with augmented reality; No need to print anything when you can just instantiate a persistent virtual "printout" and file them in virtual zero-g above your head, or anywhere in your own "slice" of the physical office
There's no such thing as US parmesan. Parmesan has PDO/DOP status and can only be made by wizened old men who've never travelled further than 12 miles from their picturesque place of birth in italy.
You can make "parmesan style hard cheese" but it's not the same. Grana padano is not parmesan, and that's PDO/DOP too