Hah! The funny part is, you think they don’t mess this up all the time, but they do! We all have experiences with buildings that are impossible to navigate, have weird maintenance issues (toilets always backing up, A/C a nightmare, rooms too small, rooms too big, not enough useful space, etc). Buildings get redrawn constantly during construction, and they rarely match the plans. Cost overruns are endemic, as are scheduling issues.
They’re also using literally thousands of years of deeply ingrained cultural rules and expectations focusing on making living in and building structures effective (it’s one of the core tenets of civilization afterall), supported by an army of inspectors, design specialists, contractors (themselves leveraging thousands of years of passed down and deeply baked in expertise in everything from bricklaying, to concrete work, to framing).
All that for what, functionally, is a box we put things in, including ourselves, that we prefer provides some basic services to a decent standard and isn’t too ugly.
They’re also using literally thousands of years of deeply ingrained cultural rules and expectations focusing on making living in and building structures effective (it’s one of the core tenets of civilization afterall), supported by an army of inspectors, design specialists, contractors (themselves leveraging thousands of years of passed down and deeply baked in expertise in everything from bricklaying, to concrete work, to framing).
All that for what, functionally, is a box we put things in, including ourselves, that we prefer provides some basic services to a decent standard and isn’t too ugly.