TL;DR: Someone asked why I use scissors instead of rotary cutters. She's right about technical advantages but missing the point: better tools just make you do the wrong thing faster. The 4M framework shows Method > Machine. The simple solution is to trace first, then cut. This preserves patterns, improves accuracy, and reduces skill dependency. fashionINSTA provides systematic workflows, not just better tools. Last week, someone asked me why I still use scissors instead of a rotary cutter for pattern work. "Aren't rotary cutters more accurate?" she said. "They don't lift the fabric, they cut cleaner, and you can go around curves better." She's absolutely right about the technical advantages. But she's missing something crucial that I learned the hard way over 15 years in fashion production. Better tools don't automatically make you better. They just make you do the wrong thing faster. That's why fashionINSTA - an AI-powered sketch-to-pattern and pattern intelligence platform - foc...