I’d amend that: it’s always the policy that should be modified in the longer run. Sometimes it’s wholly appropriate to pump the brakes on the tech that would allow mass application of the bad policy.
It rarely if ever actually works out for the simple reason that, if one jurisdiction pumps the brakes, there's a dozen others willing to floor the other pedal on the same thing.
Because bad policies can do only damage.
And tech can do both good and bad.