The nips were just especially fucking slow and basically lived like cavemen like all volcanic island civilizations, lack of access to metal slows development like nothing else. This is also why nip media and fiction likes to pretend their history begins in like the 1400s, admitting that it took three hundred years after the fall of the Roman empire to even figure out &quot;GRUG SCRATCH ROCK. NOW TOMORROW GRUG REMEMBER WHAT GRUG THINKING OF&quot; is fucking embarrassing