The storage problem should actually have been known beforehand.
Honestly, I have to bite my tongue so often when people freely acquire things that simply don’t fit their situation. Sure, I grew up in a 1950s house where we had a potato bin in the pantry cellar and the potatoes would last for months there. But you couldn’t store anything else there, especially nothing that could rust.
And once again, I have to say: energy is still way too cheap. If we continue to do such absurd things (or rather, can afford them) like the slavish bundling of heat and air, then I have to say: for some people, the kWh must cost at least 30 euros (and I mean every form of energy!) so that people will actually think about how sensible what they are doing really is.