just struck me what makes me so disinterested in this design project, even more than it's first level counterpart; PO2 solely focusses on the first design stages, and there's no barely any prototyping and for sure no actual thing being made, and that's like, the opposite way i do any hardware project.. (start with proto first, improve on that). PO1 at least went through all four 'design stages' and ended with a prototype