It's definitely an ever ongoing competition with each member having different styles and preferences, presenting/sharing/reusing ideas and pushing the envelope.
Thing is that there's no winner.
But we all get better.
Now I wanna redo my side rails with the "S" ornaments

maybe
It was a very spur of the moment kind of thing so I did not research first, just did it of the top of my head.
Yours is so much more stylistically true.
chips