Small potatoes fren. The issue is not that engineers don't understand the impracticality of their designs, I'm arguing the contrary. I think the engineers are well aware of their designs and shortcomings. They were given a drawing and a box and said, make a transmission fit in here, you have 90 days...

In the game of tradeoffs complexity is typically the cheapest option in the field of engineering. storage space is running out A) buy more storage? b) compress it? B will be the answer 90% of the time.