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> I would muck it all up with wristbands assigned to seats and a 5G/IOT network needing to be installed at every stadium and custom control logic needing to be written and customized for every stadium

complex, expensive, difficult to deploy, doesn’t account for all factors (highly congested cellular networks are common in medium to high dense areas).

Reminds me of a few consultants I have had the “pleasure” to work with.

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The attributes you list are correct, but you’re being a little unfair with your pretty obvious implications of at the very least incompetence of not malice.

People get used to building with the tools in their tool belt. When a problem arises that is better served with another tool, especially when working at a “lower level”, even if it’s more simple overall which this clearly clearly is, many many people are blind to it. I guarantee that you’ve done the same thing at least once.

I think this is a highly uncharitable response to someone clearly trying to speak humbly and honestly of their instinct towards a solution they obviously then recognized would be inappropriate.

If you would have invented PixMob, why didn’t you invent PixMob?

To be fair, selling this thing seems harder than making it.

Goes to show it's not always about greed or malice. Sometimes overengineering is at least well-intentioned. (Following the money often helps you determine what caused it.)

I think over engineering comes from engineers catching shit from customers and managers that changed requirements after the fact.

Then on their next project those engineers get paranoid, and try to solve every problem before it happens.

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