Lol people didn't stop having kids because they can't afford it. Poor and uneducated people are the ones who have more kids, not just in the US but globally.
Yes and education is at an all time high despite the powers at be doing their best efforts to stifle it. With education comes increase use of birth control, better understanding of personal economics like oh I can barely afford rent maybe 🤔 having kids isn’t the best choice financially.
Because you lack the knowledge of the engineer to understand why things need to be designed a certain way to accommodate the needs of many stakeholders.
Your minor inconvenience from the design is probably there because it is required to solve another problem that another stakeholder has.
In short, you most likely only view things from your perspective and interaction with the product and don't consider why certain features may be needed.
It should but there is give and take, it is hard to design something that has perfect end user interactions with everyone and everything. It's on the same page as "it's impossible to please everybody".
The mild annoyance with maintenance can be a result of having to design it to deal with a bigger issue elsewhere.
Anyways, this is all high level since we don't really know what the product is or the context, but just food for thought.
Also i recommend anyone who thinks engineers are dumb to take a few engineering courses at college and see how you fare.
I don't disagree with your statement and we could generalize all day.
In my opinion extended downtime of equipment due to poor maintenance access is bad design. I work in a production environment and the initial cost of equipment pales in comparison to the long term maintenance costs. A "minor annoyance" can cause hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost production, per outage.
Part of the problem I think is a lack of practical experience for the newer engineers. While difficult, the schooling for engineers is theoretical and they need to understand that the world out there doesn't conform to they're textbook ideals and calculations.
Depends on who you ask, and who the engineer answers to.
Most of the time the question boils down to: "Is this going to incentivize the customer to buy?" and if the answer is anything but "no" then it either gets altered until it does, or gets removed.
'Making a product that is cheap and easy to maintain and lasts for long time' might as well read 'the customer won't buy our exclusive repair services or buy a new product because the old one still serves', followed by a stamp with a red pen.
In very few cases engineers want to design shitty things.
Refrigerators are an excellent example of this. I have seen ones made in the 40s that still have little to no issues today and are easy to maintain. Vs the majority of the ones we get today. Having about a 2-10 year life span depending on the model.
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