Every time I work on something anachronistic or artificially constrained, I learn more about the fundamentals of the cutting edge stuff. There's a way that the

Every time I work on something anachronistic or artificially constrained, I learn more about the fundamentals of the cutting edge stuff. There's a way that the "default" perspective of the industry tends to emphasize certain skills and knowledge and de-emphasize others, but the world of useful skills is much broader than that, and things crop back up in unexpected ways. Maybe we'll never need to make calls with an antique phone, but there could totally be audio and telephonic applications on modern hardware where the average engineer would have no idea what to do, but someone who had worked on a "toy" project like this would be able to say "oh, this is just like an old [whatever]"