You are right - I went to a vo-tech school that had an engineering class and our class project at the end of the year was to create a new toilet seat (not even

You are right - I went to a vo-tech school that had an engineering class and our class project at the end of the year was to create a new toilet seat (not even full toilet) and the amount of R+D (which includes massive UX studies, research etc) is astronomical, and this was back in the 90's :)