Endian
I have a friend who says if he had the opportunity to go back in time and kill one person it would not be Hitler or any evil leader for that matter. It would be the person who came up with the concept of big endian - little endian. He has spent most of his career sorting out problems with this concept.
The real trouble is that one way or the other has no real advantage. just pick one and go with it. It is a bit like having having a log series of telephone cords. These cords all have two prongs and can plug into the next cord either way. At any given moment, a million people are accessing these cords and moving them around. The conversation that comes out of the cords is forwards only as long as all the place where the conversation hops from one cord to the next are all facing the same way. Or, the combination of flips just happens to accidentally flip the conversation back before it is  heard by the recipient.
The conversation I heard yesterday ended with some one stating that many people just plane avoid the issue because there is no way to win and make every one happy. There are so many dynamics and so few people are dealing with the issue that it will never be solved. It will always be an annoying back-burner issue that no one wants to deal with.This is just another layer of craziness that will never get "fixed".