Sometimes you have to rig up a fix with whatever you have laying around. Sure, it looks like junk, but it ain’t stupid if it works.
If you have some duct tape and a few pieces of cardboard you can “fix” pretty much anything around the house. Or at the very least you can buy yourself some time until someone who actually knows what they’re doing can come a really fix it.
These are times people did their best with what they had, and hey, it worked. Credit where credit is due.