That statement in a way makes my point. Good tooling should help the creator offload a lot of the "thinking about your program", rather it should help you focus

That statement in a way makes my point. Good tooling should help the creator offload a lot of the "thinking about your program", rather it should help you focus on what you want to do. Also the long time taken in high-level decision making is strongly tied to the difficulty of getting even a trivial piece of software working, even if it isn't always apparent. For instance if the output of the high-level decision making was to create a spreadsheet or PowerPoint presentation, I am sure it wouldn't take anywhere as long. I have a few long rants on this topic that I'll be putting on the Crudzilla blog (blog.crudzilla.com), stay tuned :)