I designed an automotive part that is fabricated out of sheet metal and this article resonates with me because while the completed product looks very simple, th

I designed an automotive part that is fabricated out of sheet metal and this article resonates with me because while the completed product looks very simple, the process of getting to the completed product is very complex and has dozens of iterations of designs, failed prototypes, mistakes, etc. That's what is so infuriating when my products get copied by sellers from China or similar - they are taking all of the hundreds of hours of work that I put into a design and skipping that, going straight to the easy part of producing the finalized part. Making the thing is the easy part - making up the thing is the hard part!