First step is not putting your hope that the people who got you into this mess who have every reason to not try and get you out this mess, can and will fix it.
Part of the purpose of consequences is to stop the damage.
Obama's whole "Lets not look backward" schtick is what allowed every single person responsible for the Iraq war and 2008 financial crisis, and the 2010 foreclosure-fraud crisis to maintain their positions of power.
The database schema that sets each room as the atomic unit. That ends up creating a very convoluted database structure prone to corruption.