Not a perfect match but I instantly thought of ianVisits for London stuff. It's a similar vibe to this but is mostly transport-related: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/
Agreed. The challenge I had was that the juniors helping me out were obsessed with applying these low hanging fruit style modernisations because of an unqualified "it's better".
I had to sit them all down and explain a variant of your point and the one another poster made about second system syndrome.