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Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds
It is most definitely not. If there's a part you need and someone is already manufacturing it, why waste your time reinventing the wheel? Buy the part, save some time, get done faster.
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You aren't just letting someone else manufacture it, if that were the case I'd take no issue with it. You are letting someone else design it, allowing you to focus on some other design. I see this as detrimental to the FIRST experience on whole, as it means some teams don't have to make tradeoffs. They can buy their way around deciding "awesome gearbox, or awesome arm?" That kind of tradeoff is, much more indicative of real life, no? Making sacrafices builds character
