> unlike e.g. civil engineering It isn't like people don't wonder why it takes so long or costs so much to, say, build a road, either. It seems like everybody

> unlike e.g. civil engineering It isn't like people don't wonder why it takes so long or costs so much to, say, build a road, either. It seems like everybody massively underestimates how long it should take to do something that they don't know how to do and won't be doing. I characterize this mindset as "I need _x_ to be true, therefore _x_ must be true." It's endemic in all of the people who don't actually produce anything.