Trailing edge of technology

Apparently building a Lamborghini involves craftsmen repeatedly hitting sheet metal with large wooden mallets.
This is a comforting thought and helps lighten my recurring sentiment of being, despite my desires, at the trailing edge of technology.
My 'Lamborghini' was, a staircase in steel with an elaborate structural concept involving cantilevered treads, reconstituted steel profiles, triangular frames and sophisticated calculations. Due to budgetary considerations the Italian custom job now resembles a reasonably priced pacific rim family runabout.

Howard Roarke was here!
(with his purpose made rubber stamp 'NOT BUILT').

The Client will now descend elegantly (in evening gown) a stair consisting of two stringers and flat metal welded treads. We are talking the simple and plain here, an archetypal stair. Maybe I should forget technology and start talking about minimalism.

Whatever. The steel stair should be arriving in the Spring (the big unit of temporal precision on a small job in France is a Saison or Trimestre - smaller increments are measured in Ponts*).
In the meantime the ground floor stair is being built. Now here, we are definitely not on the leading edge of technology, we're attached by baler twine being dragged a good distance behind.
The physical realities of the average construction site don't seem to have changed in hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Mixing stuff in buckets hitting things with hammers.......minimalism?

*The 'Pont' will be explained to the non French reader next month, when it will inevitably become a major theme.