Yeah, you’re sort of describing engineering in a nutshell. It’s all about tradeoffs, and there’s so much min-maxing going on. Then eventually you discover some

Yeah, you’re sort of describing engineering in a nutshell. It’s all about tradeoffs, and there’s so much min-maxing going on. Then eventually you discover some property or design where the tradeoffs aren’t as bad while still mostly maxing the desired property and it becomes a common solution. What’s interesting, is that periodically you can go back to what looked like a bad solution, and because of advancements in related designs, this solution can actually end up being superior in some ways.