[HeyLaughingBoy]

But the thread's based on an invalid assumption. I posit that inventions were never "easy." They just seem that way in retrospect, from the outside.

[quadrangle]

Easy is relative. So is "invention". I invent things most days of my life, but they aren't that novel.

People are crazy inventive and always have been. But today, it is far easier than it ever was before to learn about the best inventions others already figured out instead of reinventing the wheel.