Do you think engineers spend enough time thinking about how decisions age over time? I’ve noticed a lot of “good” decisions only become problems years later.

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If you're following a well planned design process you should be planning for manufactureability, serviceability, modularity, obsolescence and a miriad of other considerations that help "future proof" a design. Obviously the real world always comes up with new fun ways to foil your best designs. As far as "if we spend enough time" I think thats usually a constraint of budgets and resources including timelines.

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