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by AlexandrB 2 hours ago
The flip side of this is "Chesterton's Fence"[1]. It's easy to propose "better" solutions, but grading has evolved to be what it is over the past 100+ years. Any novel solution will have different (and not necessarily better) second, third, or fourth order effects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...