You might also try basically any essential oil mildly diluted. I’ve had a lot of luck with lavender oil.
(I think aphids are just tiny so they get engulfed in whatever you spray on them, essential oils are actually relatively nasty chemicals that just smell nice)
Going back to my childhood: reading comprehension way ahead of my age group. You can’t play old jrpgs and point-and-click adventures without reading a lot.
Not sure how true it would be today with everything being voiced.
In my experience they’ve significantly tailed off over the past year, exponential growth would mean the amount they get better per unit time increases over time. What has gotten better is our ability to run the same level of things on cheaper hardware with less power, again just in my limited experience. (Also this is not the definition of exponential growth, just a property of it. Polynomial growth has the same property)
Could well be that that was the effective treatment.