With many things, deliberating over them before purchasing still leaves the would-be purchaser in the dark compared with owning them for a few weeks. Thus it w

With many things, deliberating over them before purchasing still leaves the would-be purchaser in the dark compared with owning them for a few weeks. Thus it would make more sense to try a variety of kinds of flatware, furniture, or cars (etc. etc.) and figure out not just what sounds like it would be perfect but what actually is. To claim that some flatware or furniture is optimally designed is (in my opinion) somewhat absurd anyway, since both are largely a matter of taste as well as some degree of optimality for the particular use case.