I feel like closing that loop was actually bad for innovation. When we designed analog tubes, there could be some exciting piece to make/invent. Now everything

I feel like closing that loop was actually bad for innovation. When we designed analog tubes, there could be some exciting piece to make/invent. Now everything is programmable and we get stuck on “why” or “what” we are trying to make before we even start. A bit like computer software, no one just messes around to make pong or hello world anymore, they are spending 6 months white boarding the thing before they write any code. (Or maybe they aren’t, but in hardware we do) So … nothing super amazing in my sleep anymore. Waking up in the middle of the night to design a circuit to provide a constant -5vdc for a 555 timer while the rest of the circuit is +\- something or another, just doesn’t happen anymore.