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I also have some vintage 50mm 1.4 the size of a shot glass which are tiny compared to modern 50mm 1.4 lenses which resemble the size of a Saturn V.
I guess the modern glass is correcting for much more optical errors people in the 70s and 80s were accepting but won't any more today. After all there wasn't 60 megapixel resolution on 35mm film (no, don't even start!).
Maybe manufacturers could have corrected these already in the 70s and 80s but the lens would have been ridiculously expensive, or big, or heavy. Or all three.
Why do you comply with having your own photos ruled over by your employer? That's not their business. Stand up for yourself!
If Topaz Sharpen AI cannot help, you may be out of luck.
I can recommend Simon d'Entremont on Youtube, if you want to go into wildlife photography. And Duade Paton. And others I just forgot.
This "lifespan" is a general expectation, it doesn't mean it will fail after that and it doesn't mean it absolutely will be ok until 300k actuations. And it can be repaired if necessary. That is part of the cost of doing business.
We all shouldn't forget that most of the photographer content on Youtube is entertainment, not education. We can still enjoy it. I do anyway.
If it's for archives and retrieval is rare and not time-critical, I'd look into amazon S3 with Storage Class DEEP_ARCHIVE. It's the cheapest cloud storage.
However, tape may still be the better solution long-term.