Comment by ggm

Why do so many people do "why didn't you..." As if the engineers who designed this didn't have 1002 alternatives and went with this one for reasons of budget, politics, prior knowledge, IPR costs, skills, religious beliefs, or a million other reasons.

Why did we go to the moon when we have perfectly good vacuum chambers here at home.

The implied "my way is better" in these responses is usually the bad take on "what made this better than my way" as a question which nobody really can answer unless the OP is the engineer.

"Why does Finland not deploy ubiquitous small nuclear reactors every 25 meters and make a heated road to the north you can drive over as well as get power from if you have a power adapter for finnish plugs"