People have had similar experiences for least a couple thousand years.
Ecclesiastes 1:8-9
All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Or, as one translation put:
This is simply a giant intentional clustetfuck of an abomination.
If emergency calling is actually the emergency, the standard should be backwards compatible and designed to accept any device.
It kind of does, but the telcos are just playing dirty by excluding devices they don’t have control over.