People feel the need to rationalize with some vague "educate the public" business but its really a piece of performance art by people skilled in the EE and CS a

People feel the need to rationalize with some vague "educate the public" business but its really a piece of performance art by people skilled in the EE and CS arts. So in that way you're telling the artist to use a different medium and that usually holds roughly zero interest for the artist. If the artist wanted to perform "Dueling Banjos" on xylophones that would be cool and they surely could have done so, but they didn't want to. A good programming analogy is people confusing the purpose of a programming Koan collection and helpfully suggesting the participant should google the answers. Or even worse than programming Koans, ditto but for meditation Koans. The point of the experience is to do it your way, by yourself... Personally I'd like to play with RTL gate logic using modern transistors "in my infinite spare time". There's a certain alternative history component aspect. Imagine if instead of leaky, low beta, low Ft, low breakdown voltage germanium transistors, RTL was implemented with top of the line 2010s discretes. Yeah yeah I know RTL begat DTL begat TTL using contemporary technology, but in alternate history world, how would life have changed?