You said it adds extra time and cost for no good reason. But isn't the reason that the customer is asking for it and willing to pay? If people want these outlets and you're getting steady calls for them, that sounds like a real need they have. Maybe it's not a need you get, but it's what they want. Calling it trendy makes it sound useless, but a built in USB port is just more convenient than an adapter block. It seems like easy work that pays the bills. I don't see the problem.

My first bullet journal was a three dollar notebook from the drugstore. The pages were a total mess for like six months straight, but I had to get all those bad ideas out of my system. That trial and error phase is how you find your own basic setup that actually gets used. Now my weekly layout takes five minutes with a pen and a highlighter, and it works because I finally stopped trying to make it pretty.

Where do my ideas come from? Usually from me missing the point entirely. For example, I once read "code review" as "coat review" and wrote a whole thing about winter jackets. @michaeltorres, that's the spark right there. My brain just takes wrong turns and calls it innovation.

Sicily oil ruining dough? Seems overblown to me.

Honestly I would have said the same thing as @martin.joel a week ago! I used to think these debates were just silly kid stuff. But hearing them argue about food and habitat means they're thinking it through seriously, not just wanting a cool pet. That's a good sign they're learning. Maybe lean into it and have them each make a "care guide" for their favorite alien. Turns the fight into a project.