Unpopular opinion: I’m disappointed we put so much effort into designing forks, cups, and spoons.

Are any of these things better in 2022 than they were in 1922 or in 1722?

Let’s pick a standard design for forks and only update it when we get new classes of materials or new manufacturing processes that require or enable a design tweak.

We complain about the amount of human ingenuity that gets sunk into ad click rates or tricking people with dark patterns.

What about the amount of human ingenuity that goes into redesigning a four-legged wooden kitchen chair that looks like a four-legged wooden kitchen chair, or a stainless steel fork that looks like a stainless steel fork.