I lived my life on the other end of that product cycle and I see what
engineers can't do.
If they weren't wrong so often I would not have had a job.
I didn't lose my job because they got any better. It was just because
we simply throw away their mistakes and buy a new one instead of
trying to fix it.
Well that certainly explains it in a nutshell. Fire the engineering
department. Don't need it.
You don't want to fire them but they do need a little more real world
experience. That was one of the jobs I had, service planning, in
Endicott. Basically we were feeding back how things that worked
perfectly in the lab were not doing as well in the customer's office.
More on point is a lot of times in the Maps they had useless
procedures than never fixed anything but wasted a lot of time and
resources. We tried to cut through that clutter.
Your "ban military guns" falls into that category. It is a lot of
effort for very little return. There are perhaps 50-100 million that
would fall into that broad category that are here and not going
anywhere.