A point that has been hammered into me by multiple smart people in last 3 years: low-cost product actually implies high-cost engineering now
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absolutely. And reducing costs downstream via modularity requires significantly more front end eng. Same is true in physical eng world.
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Yup. Reversal of old expectation that "consumer grade" will be defeatured-crap version of "professional" or "enterprise" grade

