So this guy seems to be kind of proud of the regime that made the problems its people had to work around. Setting that aside, I couldn't help but agree with how freeing it is once you've had something break, without a way to fix it "right". When you start to look at the world as a bunch of things made of constituent parts which can be altered or repurposed to your needs. When you stop looking at possessions as complicated things that you are afraid to mess up.
I thinkt the Saiga's need for conversion, and often the need for some tuning have done the same for a lot of us. Before my saiga, I