My old apartment had the same hard water issue for five years. I tried a dozen different cleaners before realizing the problem was the shower head itself. Sometimes the fix isn't an upgrade, it's just replacing what's already broken.

Sometimes you just can't beat the original recipe.

Honestly, my old boss swore by a specific brand of drafting dots for years. Tried a cheaper roll on a deadline once and it was way less sticky, never went back. Sometimes the "right" way is just what someone got used to.

Last year our dev team spent three months on a feature we thought was huge. A friend who just uses apps asked what it did and I realized it solved a problem nobody actually had. You're right, @emery879, we were totally in our own bubble. It's wild how obvious it seems once someone from the outside says it out loud.

My buddy learned that lesson the hard way.