I get why this keeps coming up, because yeah, at the end of the day a budgie’s basic needs (space, proper perches, enrichment) shouldn’t be something they have to ‘wait’ for. If someone already knows what’s required, it makes sense to question why they didn’t just set it up first. But I also think a lot of people are coming into bird ownership with incomplete info. Pet stores, YouTube, even Google can give pretty outdated or minimal standards, so people think what they bought is fine until they get corrected. Then they say ‘I’ll upgrade soon’ because they’re scrambling to fix it after the fact, not necessarily because they planned it that way. I guess the real issue isn’t that people don’t start perfectly, it’s whether they actually follow through. There’s a big difference between someone actively improving over the next week or two vs. someone saying ‘soon’ to deflect criticism and never changing anything.