Experiments are rarely a waste of effort just because they don't turn into something bigger; Focus on what we can have, not what we might have had. Reinventing

Experiments are rarely a waste of effort just because they don't turn into something bigger; Focus on what we can have, not what we might have had. Reinventing the wheel for "minor" issues (or just for fun!) is what gave us Linux, LLVM+Clang, Go/Rust/Nim/etc., Newton's laws, Relativity, etc. Incremental changes are not the only way, nor always the best way, to make progress.