I've been in one for just slightly longer, and I absolutely adore visual tools (SSIS). My coworker despises them. We are similarly experienced and similarly pro

I've been in one for just slightly longer, and I absolutely adore visual tools (SSIS). My coworker despises them. We are similarly experienced and similarly productive. After some discussion, the difference seems to stem from our own mental design patterns. When I design and visualise a data process, I literally draw and diagram on paper in the same way that a visual tool represents it. His own prototyping is notes in the form of pseudocode. Don't underestimate the human equation at work here. This debate might not ever be 'solved'.