[kqr]

There's a corollary to your last paragraph:

Failing to recognize the limitations of an idea or technology is the #1 way innovators, inventors and startups succeed, too!

Every innovator I've talked to, when I asked them, "if you knew ahead of time all the problems with your original idea, would you have gone through the trouble?", all answer pretty much the same way: The only reason they saw it through was that at any point, they thought "That's gotta be the worst part. Now how hard can the rest of it really be?"

[tromp]

One fine example of persistence in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges paying off is ASML development of EUV [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/asml-extreme-ultraviolet-lithogr...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/inside-asml-the-company-adva...

[3] https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories