Not only might it be more fun, but you'd build a better intuition about what to expect from it (or even how it works). It's like how people often make fewer mi

Not only might it be more fun, but you'd build a better intuition about what to expect from it (or even how it works). It's like how people often make fewer mistakes with slide-rules or abacuses than pocket calculators, since the former two require you to check your answer against your intuition, while the latter just tells you "the answer" to your (potentially ill-formed) query. Trusting a black box can be quite dangerous.