I love those buildings and live in one, couldn’t be happier. Super nice view of the city, and very affordable since where I live many of those buildings still belong to the state.
One advantage many overlook is the amount of natural light, what a.o.t. has important benefits to the mental and physical health of the population. According to Wilfried Stallknecht (an architekt behind many projects in the GDR), the buldings should keep a distance that guaranteed that every appartment had, on the 22. February of the year, at least a room with 2 hours of sunlight. If you walk in those planned areas you see the huge space surrounding the buildings, with lots of green areas, parks, playgrounds and so on.
If it were a couple of years ago I would have signed it. But nowadays, where thousands of “contributors” are just submitting AI slop everywhere, and perceived 99.9% of new projects are purely vibe-coded… no thanks. The nice thing of volunteer work is the human aspect of it, what is unfortunately no longer guaranteed. I don’t want my tax contributions being burned into LLM tokens.