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Absolutely, and that's precisely where the biggest benefit of "starting where you have the most constraints" comes in handy.

I mean, you might know full well that the beautiful solid oak desk you want to buy will fit in your spare bedroom perfectly, but that information doesn't help you if you fail to realise that you can't fit it up the stairs.

And yeah, regarding it being a hard habit to break, it truly is. That's the very reason that I like to make noise about not referring to device types; even though people might say "everyone knows that when we say 'mobile' we mean 'small screens'" or whatever, but the word "mobile" has so much contextual baggage that it's easy to infer information that you just can't truly rely on when you use that word.