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Exactly. Humans in our timeline *needed* mechanisms to ignite things.
In an alternate timeline, (half of) humans can make all the sparks they want without any tools or materials. Why *bother* with semi-reliable flintlocks or matchlocks? What's even the motivation?
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 20: How has a setting surprised you?
Sometimes, consequences of a premise/setting come together in an unexpectedly apt way. That's actually how I knew I *had* to tackle my current series.
Human women get access to electricity early in the Bronze Age. Pondering tech development, I realized that gunpowder would be used differently. Women would just make sparks to set it off. There'd be no need for triggers and percussion primers and such.
Which means men can't use guns. 🤯