I've got two off the top of my head:
First is that the design of the USB drives needing to be oriented up or down was the result of a minor cost cutting choice. The inventor regrets it because it wouldn't been easy made so that USB drives were reversible.
Second is the abundance of pointless SEO stuff on recipe pages. It would be a cool opportunity for the creator to add a personal touch to the recipe page beneath the recipe, but they pop in first along with ads and suggested links. And they're so frustrating to navigate that they had to incorporate a 'jump to recipe' button.
Took a trip to Europe recently. One thing that I noticed that we're deprived of in the US is simple artistic decorations. All our construction here has little to no artistic embellishments or flourishes where a skilled trades person can demonstrate their prowess and beautiful spaces. Any fancy construction that goes on here is just a cheap facade that's been sloppily put together as fast as possible for maximum return.
In Europe there's beautiful glazed tiles used for the siding of houses, real wooden inlays in tables and staircases, coats of arms chiseled from granite at the corner of half the buildings, cobblestone roadways and sidewalks were they'll make swirling patterns with them, many walls in public spaces have real art from local artists on them, there's actual color used in architecture, pubic parks that are actually kept up on, street lights that have style.
This isn't every square inch of the EU and I've seen some shitty areas too, but so many places are actually beautiful there. I got a sense that when people build things, they actually care about what they're doing. And so much of what I described is actually maintained too! Here in Burgeritaville things are so bland. Only a few historical areas in the US have ever given me that vibe.
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