You know, when I was a kid - back in the good old days, we didn't have indoor pluming. It was much simpled. no burst pipes in the winter. No leaky toilets to keep us awake in the night. Just dig a hole & put a little shed around it with a seat with a hole in it. Worked great. Of course it bred flies and stank quite a bit & was a little uncomfortable on frosty mornings but "it worked".
I'm glad to have those little problems that our technology brings to us even though they are not perfect. Sometimes that's the fun of it.