Building diy devices with microcontrollers feels like a microcosm of this. Months of designing and coding and in the end you get hung up on some dumb connector

Building diy devices with microcontrollers feels like a microcosm of this. Months of designing and coding and in the end you get hung up on some dumb connector that takes a month to ship. If I had an Aliexpress warehouse down the street I would be located there too.