Who's design? Certainly not King George III's.
the fact that some parts may be salvageable is not a reason to try to fix it rather than knock it down.
No but the people still living there are. Thats the part you guys always forget is that you're literally asking people to sacrifice their vulnerable loved ones for your half baked 'solution'.
But you’ve heard of the USSR, the PRC, Vietnam, Cuba, etc?
USSR - 300+ years of Romonov Monarchy before Russian Revolution
PRC - 2000 years of Qing Dynasty before Xinhai Revoluiton
Vietnam - Imperial rule followed by French/Japanese occupation until being partitioned after US occupation
Cuba - A Spanish colony for 400+ years that failed to gain independence despite several revolts before the Spanish-American war.
Even citing those in this conversation deeply discredits your argument in my mind. Never mind drawing straight line comparisons between societies with decades/centuries of autocracy to our poorly utilized but still functional democracies.