metaphors for explaining the current situation to non-tech-savvy people:

• the big safe in your local bank turns out to have a combination luggage lock that’s guarding everything inside it
• two of the three digits on that lock is jammed
• the third digit is 4

meanwhile that is happening,

• landlines can catch fire now out of nowhere
• and the phone company is only updating recently made landlines.
• this is making many landline owners to unplug their phones so they don’t catch fire