Sunak kneecapping the universities in an election year only makes sense if your only remaining loyal demographic is also the most ignorant and worst educated.
The problem is that technology (in all spheres) cannot advance quickly enough that modern management, economics and politics will catch up with and destroy all those advances.
Consider why Boeing, with its incredible technical heritage, can't make safe planes any more, or even a small tech startup gets bogged down in Scrum meetings and OKRs.
"You knew it must come to this, sooner or later, Toad," the Badger explained severely. "You've disregarded all the warnings we've given you, you've gone on squandering the money your father left you, and you're getting us animals a bad name in the district by your furious driving and your smashes and your rows with the police."
You know it's a genuine Francis Ford Coppola movie production when it goes massively over budget, has last minute actor replacements, and is almost destroyed by a typhoon