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You are perhaps exaggerating a little but the essential points are correct.
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Ok maybe a little
but a useful immediate change would be TMV tickets are the same paper as ticker office ones which are paper, the TMV ones have a shiny plastic type coating over them and bits sticking out at the end and cause more issues than standard paper.
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We need to advance a decade or two towards making the system more flexible (easy to buy a ticket online from Limerick to Belfast or Sligo to Wexford or Bray to Galway).
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Reasonable ticket office prices would be sufficient stop gap in the meantime.
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With all the delays during its development phase, Leap was basically obsolete by the time it came out.
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Like most things in Ireland.
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I'm guessing that because our ticketing is so complex, that pretty much everything about Leap was developed from scratch rather than bought in as a solution so to change anything costs an absolute fortune. So we'll probably still be unable to open a barrier with our smart-watches / wrist implants / brainwave amplifiers or whatever in the 2040s.
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It's complex because IE or the NTA are not willing/prepared to sort it out in a reasonable time frame.
We need a new system that is simple, efficient and encourages more usage of services. Just take the Leap Card it should be possible to use it out to Kildare/Drogheda however IE don't want the fare loss (fair enough) and the NTA are not prepared to (possibly not able to) to mitigate the impact to IE and offer the service. Most people would be quiet happy to save a few euro per week and been able to tag on off instead of having to go pay for tickets and it would also help with people not paying fares to an extent.
I know it's not as clear cut as doing it but you can be sure there is not the will from all sides to do much about it either.