why aren’t elevators standard where you can deselect buttons?

Question

It seems to be so easy to implement and everybody knows the problem: you take an elevator, you click the wrong floor and now you have to wait awkwardly on the wrong floor for the doors to close again.

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Answer 1

We have such elevators here, and I never saw such fights.

However, I think the real reason is that they are harder to program (and obviously require more modern hardware, e.g. not just an ordinary set of mechanical buttons) so unless it’s time to renovate the apartment block elevator no one cares enough to replace them.