Imagine some point in history where the wheel hasn't yet been invented. But someone figured out that an octagon works kind of reasonably well as something that you might want to put under your chariot, and the whole world of engineering is under a culture where "reinventing the octagon" is some kind of cardinal sin. Where would we be then?
Also: Your reasoning is logically a fallacy. From "people making mistake X tend to do Y" it does not follow that "doing Y is a mistake".
Also: Your reasoning is logically a fallacy. From "people making mistake X tend to do Y" it does not follow that "doing Y is a mistake".