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> Alternatively you can just run everything at 230V

Sure and everyone can just stop using Python 2.x tomorrow right?

Backwards compatibility is a big deal. Even moreso when it involves physical infrastructure. who wants to pay billions upon billions of dollars to make the change? How long will it take to roll trucks on all those linemen and electricians to convert/retrofit everything? Does the customer pay? The government?

And at the end of it everything is just the same as it was before. There's no huge benefit to be had for doing it.

That's why I said I wished we had more use of the 240v NEMA plugs. So we could begin supporting higher power appliances over time without some huge switchover expense.

For that matter I wish 3-phase was more available. I have a small machine shop in my garage that would greatly benefit from it.