As another example, I (and many other hardware engineers I know) spent 2021 doing essentially remediation on current designs to keep things in production (by de

As another example, I (and many other hardware engineers I know) spent 2021 doing essentially remediation on current designs to keep things in production (by designing in new parts). If there hadn't been shortages, we could have spent that time designing new products that will now either never be released or come to market a year later than they otherwise would have (preventing their use for that year).