I expect the downvotes are because of the unmentioned "communist, single-party states are the essence of groupthink coolaid" elephant. But I doubt you're wrong

I expect the downvotes are because of the unmentioned "communist, single-party states are the essence of groupthink coolaid" elephant. But I doubt you're wrong on the engineering analysis. The physical world has the unique property of being unbeholden to vision. Either the widget works, or it doesn't. And in a marketplace with actual competition, you're going to have a lot of people working very hard to build a better widget.