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Of course they do.. Look at bicycles!
And there are loads of approaches.. Bicycles clearly belong to the "worse is better" school just as much of the Internet standards that we are using to communicate with one another in this forum (HTML over HTTP over TCP/IP versus BER/ASN.1 and OSI). HTML is really a good example as it was born as a very poor kludge (worse is worse) to try to copy something with good engineering (HyTime) but without the difficult engineering and development--- CERN licensed EBT's Dynabook but its pay per document revision model proved prohibitively expensive. HTTP was developed as a protocol one could write with a shell script--- following a number of other "finger protocols" such as Gopher.
And today how many billions of people are using it?