> But nobody ever does that. Please don't report your own experience samples as plain universal facts. It is one of the more common means by which falsehoods s

> But nobody ever does that. Please don't report your own experience samples as plain universal facts. It is one of the more common means by which falsehoods spread. I have no doubt that's not your intention, and you believe what you write, but you cannot have a basis for such a bald statement, and it happens to be false. I have seen prototypes built and discarded very frequently. Indeed in an earlier incarnation it was my own professional focus. I have no idea how common it is in your country, or globally, or in specific industrial sectors. Usable stats in tech are hard to come by (in large part because of its ubiquity). But your statement is just false, and commonly repeated.