I've been thinking, and this at times leads to trouble, you are all right. Men design, men repair and men sell sewing machines, BUT not enough men quilt, which is why the research and development of more effective machines is so slow.
Now I wonder, if so many designers are men, who is doing all that sewing and what kinds of machines are they using?
My old Singer machine also had a means to latch my foot pedal up under the cabinet so that I could use my knee instead of a foot. Now how hard is that to design?? :hunf:
It is my understanding that at one time in the beginning of electric sewing machines there was a machine that worked with 2 spools of thread and no bobbin. So "who" got rid of that and replaced it with a bobbin? Probably some design engineer who wanted the machine to look more streamlined.
END OF RANT :-)