I've noticed that ALL beginners seem to have a reinvented global solution phase. Everyone who does electronics might say "Oh I'm going to use this one connecto

I've noticed that ALL beginners seem to have a reinvented global solution phase. Everyone who does electronics might say "Oh I'm going to use this one connector for everything". And it's either ok, if it's a standard connector, or a giant pile of crap that means they can't use a lot of existing stuff because they insisted on this insane DIY grand scheme. Usually such things have an element of "I want to do Y, so I'll build a modular kit X and use that to Y". And then X becomes the real project and Y is never finished. The insidious part is how the new product is often a tiny bit better than what's out there. But it doesn't matter. The mediocre standard solution is still way less trouble than the beautiful perfect custom thing. I'd rather have Just Works tech than tech that's Just Right. Anything that seems perfect and beautiful and simple, I don't trust, because it was probably made for one specific task, not to be a general standard you don't have to think about. I think of the failures with global solutions are because someone did them on a small scale, or because they have to do with natural systems. Fully top down planning of manmade things by a giant industry consortium is most of why tech is great. Otherwise we would have no USB C, and 12 different CPU architectures. Sometimes design by comittee protocols suck, but usually because they didn't have enough control, and instead of a protocol, they deliver a description language for companies to make their own protocol, with every feature optional so that compliance does not necessarily mean compatibility. When you do it internally it can suck because it's more effort than it's worth to replace all your existing stuff.