It's a valuable lesson to be learnt during one's career, especially if one tends to come up with very unique and esoteric solutions, or is heavily into all thin

It's a valuable lesson to be learnt during one's career, especially if one tends to come up with very unique and esoteric solutions, or is heavily into all things novel. Your beautiful system isn't an island, and it's going to have to interface with the rest of the "obviously" much less perfect world at some point sooner rather than later. I've seen lots of middle-of-the-road solutions succeed where more interesting approaches failed because they did not integrate well with the rest of the world.