Monty, there is always time to build a better one.
I’ve been thinking for a couple of years about this bench. Currently, my work bench, if you can call it that, is a kitchen table that I found sitting on a curb for garbage. I reinforced a broken leg on it and started using it. As the top got damaged, I screws a piece of plywood on top. As that plywood………well it has three layers of plywood right now.
I wound up building make shift shelves under it, but is is still just a kitchen table with plywood on top of it.
That has been my “get me by” bench for about four years now.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.