[Edratman]

JO's admission should give everyone food for thought. Just how many widely admired and acclaimed objects ended up in their final form because the creators couldn't do what really intended or ran out of time/money/patience or whatever?

I've seen something like that in my trade, where a design flaw gets copied through 3 or 4 generations of a product. The flaw is best descibed as being "grandfathered" into legitimacy because it has been so widely used. Zero Nostradamus points are available for correctly predicting what happens when you attempt to correct the flaw.