Except you spend extra time making your code simple, rather than slapping together something that requires extra maintenance from the eventual owners.

Ideally we need metrics saying, "my projects require 30% less support or 50% less brainpower than comparable projects". Things like "average cyclomatic complexity", etc.

Your points about nostalgia marketing are quite valid.

But fyi, the Venture Brothers creators (Publick, born 1967, and Hammer, born 1971) are firmly in Gen X.

There was also Black Destroyer by a.e. Van vogt, where the cat-like creature specifically ate phosphorus: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/153274

Almost certainly. Ankles also rely upon hyaline cartilage (as opposed to fibrocartilage). I found this out when I had microfracture surgery for a bad ankle injury.

Looking forward to this therapy. My fibrocartilage is wearing out!