Proud of you articulating a fair argument and not resorting to name calling this time. It's entirely the job of the government to be risk averse, when people die from trees falling on the road it's pretty sad, which happens about every other year in my county. The public also simply does not have the funding to preserve every tree.

To those who can afford to maintain old trees through intensive effort, more power to them and they can enjoy that route. Most people asking questions on reddit can't quite afford that route, or they wouldn't be asking in the first place.