After what happened yesterday, my questions remain about traditional FA systems and our response to them.

Yes, but the issue is that a) the circuits aren’t supervised, so if you lose a speaker/wire gets cut then you don’t know about it; b) PA systems tend to be neglected compared to fire alarm speakers since PA systems don’t need to get inspected annually; and c) currently none of these solutions solve the problem of someone pulling the alarm/setting off a detector to lure people out in order to kill more people.