most people have, they just don’t know it. scan and pack their own groceries. At the fast food place their own order then get their drinks and then clean up when they’re done.
For me the nightmare with cables started with communication cables that attached the pc with the external modem. They had a standard db25 shell with rs232 connections, but did anyone follow? Of course some did but with all the variations roll over, null etc I had two drawers at work filled with cables.
reading a lot of confusion between theology and philosophy.