Yup. I’ve been working on a project off and on for a few years now, where if I had known exactly what I was building in the first place, then it would have take

Yup. I’ve been working on a project off and on for a few years now, where if I had known exactly what I was building in the first place, then it would have taken me just a few weeks. But writing it (and rewriting it) was the only way to actually arrive at that knowledge.