“Reduces use case and requirements to something impossibly niche and low volume then yells at the clouds.”

Anyway, just tie the output of 21 emitter followers together, add a resistor and - tadaaa - 21 input OR!

Hey, that was my problem from last week. And, yes, I agree with you -- it was best solved another way.

But please don't complain when I give concrete examples of things I'd like to do but couldn't. (And please do recognize that there was a lot more context to the mess than just "I need an OR gate", but no one cares about the real gory details.)