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Is that surprising though? I doubt mech engs graduate with enough (any?) experience with manufacturability [1].

Seems the lesson learned here is that unlike software, physical goods require an experienced up-front design that can't be haphazardly iterated on by new-grads to be fixed later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability

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Eh, most of the software skills you bring from university need plenty of tweaking before it is useful in a real world environment. The academic goals are severely misaligned with the real world programming usage.

> Seems the lesson learned here is that unlike software, physical goods require an experienced up-front design that can't be haphazardly iterated on by new-grads to be fixed later.

I'm not so sure software is any different. I think a large part of software's reputation for low quality and buggy software is due to this.

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