I take your point, but there needs to be some kind of.... Things like the pocket issue; I'll use it just as my example, because it's an easy one. The shape of the chairs has three ridges. It's very decorative, very pretty, and because we have it, we can't change it, because that's the tradition.
You could sand off the inner point and nobody would have a pocket torn again. It would be a very minor change. How do we get to that kind of thing?