Disadvantages of swerve/crab

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Isn't it generally accepted that a more complex system fails even harder?

NASA even has a phrase for this: "The higher the tech, the bigger the wreck." It might be a little late in the game to be thinking about a crab drive at this point. My team wanted to do crab drive this summer, but earlier this month we realized we simply didn't have time to finish and refocused our efforts towards a WCD.

Your team may be different, of course. If you have the financial/technical/mentor resources to make a crab drive happen during season, go for it. But from what I've seen, only very elite teams have those kinds of resources, and even most of them prefer to stick with something simpler.

You have to remember, this is real life. Of course, a "perfect" crab drive beats any other drive on the field. But the level of quality/perfection that makes a crab drive competitive is very difficult to achieve in the real world.