> I think one of the primary reasons that it is such a dumpster fire is there traditionally hasn't been an "open" ecosystem in the hardware world Is it, though

> I think one of the primary reasons that it is such a dumpster fire is there traditionally hasn't been an "open" ecosystem in the hardware world Is it, though? Software thrives because it has an open ecosystem. But it's no less of a dumpster fire of complexity, being slowly buried under the technical debt. We literally have decades-old system designs wrapped into multiple layers of progressively newer systems, and openness doesn't help here. Most software is write-only. The overarching reason might be the lack of refactoring and feedback loops. It's more related to the production cycles and incentives than to the second-order effects of openness.