My irrational side really laments where many parts of modern life are in this process and how...standardised things have become. When I look at e.g. old camera designs, they are so much more exciting to see evolve, and offer so many cool variations on "box with a hole and a light sensitive surface in it". Seeing how they experimented and worked out different ways to make an image-making machine with that requirement, I feel like I'm missing out on a period of discovery and interesting development that now is at a well-optimised but comparatively homogenous dead end.