Landlord, Tenant, and an Eviction on Rye

This kind of news gets to be awfully exasperating. When do people learn to simply get along and work together? Does everything have to come down to a lawsuit? Are the issues needing to be addressed here so insurmountable that all parties being impacted can't get into a room, have a civil discussion, and find an amicable solution? Oh right, I'm assuming that people are willing to find some middle ground. How simplistic and foolish of me!