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Implementing this would cost a lot more and would need uptake from all of the hardware manufacturers plus building code changes. The productivity improving tech you're looking for is called an apprentice though opinions differ on how much time they save/waste.

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I mean apprentices are great, but we just got done reading an article about how there's a shortage of workers in the field.

You can either train more workers to do it the old way or invent new ways that require fewer workers (or less highly-skilled ones).

Kind of how PEX plumbing (whatever its drawbacks) has made it much simpler to plumb a house than it was when soldering copper fittings onto copper pipes was the norm (let alone threaded connections shudder).

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