Anyone can cherry pick a few design choices they don't understand and say it was incompetance.
How many contractors arrive on site and incredulously say "what was the last guy thinking?" and actually mean it?
Just because we don't understand the reasoning yet isn't strong evidence of incompentant designs, it's more evidence of our own incompentance.
We used to think that the appendix was vestigial and useless, we used to think that 'Junk dna' was a thing. With more time and research we now know how wrong we were. I'll take the downvotes and predict that we'll keep finding out how wrong we are long into the future on this subject.
To make the "junk DNA" argument for the laryngeal nerve is stretching credulity so much that you're clearly practicing motivated reasoning to argue backwards from a conclusion.
(I have to assume you must not know what the laryngeal nerve point is even about. Google "laryngeal nerve giraffe". Also try "blind spot why do octopus eyes not have it".)
Apply this type of thinking to anything else, and you'll never arrive at accurate or useful outcomes.
How many contractors arrive on site and incredulously say "what was the last guy thinking?" and actually mean it?
Just because we don't understand the reasoning yet isn't strong evidence of incompentant designs, it's more evidence of our own incompentance.
We used to think that the appendix was vestigial and useless, we used to think that 'Junk dna' was a thing. With more time and research we now know how wrong we were. I'll take the downvotes and predict that we'll keep finding out how wrong we are long into the future on this subject.