Instead, think of the scientific method as doing your absolute best to answer a question with the knowledge, skills, resources, and technology you have available. Could someone else, with different skills and technology, answer the same question in a different way? Absolutely. But this should not keep you from answering it your way. Could it mean that your design will be obsolete in a couple of years when new technology is available? You bet! But this is no excuse for not doing what you can with what you have. This also highlights the importance of STEM professionals sharing what they have learned, both successes and failures, through journal articles and conference presentations, so that everyone doing research in that area can benefit from what each has learned.