'Successful products are created by normal people who just follow their intuition'
Very true, but many a failure is created in the same way
On the other hand, failures may be produced much more efficiently by committee
And, yes, I too have many a fond memory of cassettes. One favourite one was when a friend and I, after crossing many borders in Europe, and never getting stopped (when they still had border control between France and Germany (yes I am that old)), we decided we wanted to get stopped at least once. We stuck an AC/DC tape into the portable player, and as we approached a particularly humourless-looking German border guard, we had "Highway to Hell" blaring out of our old VW Beetle (a 1300). It did not work, we were simply waved through imperiously. Our faces must have looked so honest.
So I will join in raising a pint to those brilliant people who made the cassette possible