[hiltmon]

Excellent points. And I'd have to agree that both mass market tables (Ikea?) and spreadsheets do save us all a lot of these aches.

But cheap only wins if you can sell many of the same manufactured good. Most of the people who go to carpenters and programmers think what they want is unique enough to require a crafter, but expect the crafter to be as quick and cheap as a mass-market product manufacturer.