I absolutely agree with this. Trying to build a hardware product in a prior startup I owned, finding capable manufacturers without spending several thousand dol

I absolutely agree with this. Trying to build a hardware product in a prior startup I owned, finding capable manufacturers without spending several thousand dollars to fly to China was extremely difficult. In addition, there is now a severe lack of knowledge related to manufacturing considerations when making design decisions because of this. This is an expensive price to pay that's not necessarily included in many free trade benefit analyses.