Oh wait, permits for the core are lottery only, not day-of.

Man, come on. Every cooking tool is a "50 year old idea" if you look at it sideways. A microwave is just a radar tube from WWII. A stand mixer is a hand crank mixer with a motor bolted on. The air fryer did one thing the 1976 hot air oven never could, and that's actually sell. That old thing flopped because it was huge, ugly, and cost a fortune. My countertop one fits in a cabinet and I can toss it in the dishwasher. Same pitch, sure, but the thing you plug in today is a totally different animal.

I feel you, the dotted grid fights me every single time.