> "Everything is a tradeoff" is almost a core belief for me, but in the same time, in technology, the "too-good-to-be-true" events does turn out to be real every once a while (I'm using technology here as a general concept).

Every once in a while? Our lives are better in so many tangible ways than they were even 100, 200 years ago.

Just for a start - instead of 50% of children dying before the age of 5, we're down to tiny fractions of a percentage.