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by AStonesThrow 386 days ago
I think it's also got some connotations of "Build a Better Mousetrap"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_a_better_mousetrap,_and_...

And boomers know that the grand-master of designing better mousetraps was Rube Goldberg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine