Everyone is not 'anti-progress', unless the 'progress' you mean is the type we see Elon Musk engaging in in the US.
But wait, the combination of 'austerity' and privatisation both parties (red and blue Tory) have engaged in for decades now is exactly a slow-paced what Musk is speed-running in the US. And the UK gradually moves down the global affluence tables while the rich get richer because of it.
So I guess maybe that is why everyone is so anti 'progress'. You just forgot the necessary quotation marks around the work 'progress'.