>spend time formulating X
>try to formulate / apply X on a thing
>realise is less effective than Y which is already standard
>can't come up with a non-niche application where X is more effective than Y. Maybe 1 every million years in a very specific situation you might use it and even then Y can be used anyway for that as well.

What the fuck do I do now?
Do I just shelve it for those 2 times I'll use it in the future and re-write the things I was planning to use X on to Y?
It's so shitty that I just spent a bunch of my time on a thing that didn't live up to expectations

Fuck