> So many failures could be logged so I didn’t waste my time doing non-working or poor yielding reactions

In a different but related world, clandestine chemists share failures more often than they do their successes, at least in the communities I was a part of a very long time ago.

I'd wager this is because our substrates, reagents and solvents are such a pain in the arse to get compared to an actual lab, that wasting any of them is a no-go if it can be avoided.

Related to that, but we reused solvents and recycled material a lot more than I did doing my B.Sci in Chemistry, for the same reasons!