Yet another one of those projects which is an incredible achievement and where I find myself wondering if this is a just a total waste of time and creative energy.
People like to learn things. There's no better way to learn something than to do something. It's even better if your first project is recreating something that is known to work. In that case, if it doesn't work its because something in your build doesn't work. If you design from scratch and then build, you don't know if the build is wrong or if the design is wrong. Not everyone can ride a bike without training wheels when they learn to ride a bike. It just happens that training wheels for real world things tends to look a lot like making a copy of something else that already exists.
If that falls outside of what you approve of how someone spends their time/energy/money, then find something else to worry about.
