I've had several revolutionary discoveries during my time programming. In each case, after the euphoria had settled a bit, I asked myself: Why aren't we already doing this? Why isn't this already a thing? What am I missing?

And lo and behold, in each case I did find that it was either not novel at all or it had some major downside I had initially missed.

Still, fun to think about new ways of doing things, so I still go at it.