I still kind of can't believe no one else has done that.

Its legitimately baffling to me.

Oh, yeah, our one game just is a level editor for our other game.

... I can't think of another example of anybody ever doing that.

They'd work in Streets of Sim City as well.

I have an old-ass "Trust" joystick from the game port era that just sucks. All axes have different issues, yet all of them have issues. The throttle slider is long gone, the hat mini-joystick never worked (or, if you got it to work, you lost most of the actual buttons), and the stick center is in different places on different days.

While yes, planned obsolescence is a thing, there is also lots of survivorship bias.