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by npilk 302 days ago
Agree. And then people anchor on what the technology was like when it launched, and don't notice or account for the additional improvements and iterations that happen over time.

E.g. - I was considering a 3D printer but I had heard they were expensive, messy, complicated, it was hard to get prints to come out right, etc. But it turned out I was anchored on ~2016 era technology. I got a simple modern printer for a few hundred dollars and it (mostly) just works.