I've seen the same. Yet good user interfaces are typically warty behind the scenes and full of exceptions, exactly the kind of thing where spending a lot of ti

I've seen the same. Yet good user interfaces are typically warty behind the scenes and full of exceptions, exactly the kind of thing where spending a lot of time on specifications/typing offers little reward. Au contraire, it can put you into a mindset where you'd rather fight the users than put in another difficult-to-handle-typewise exception. Some time ago I had a look at old Visual Basic which I've never personally used, and lo and behold, if you squint it's not actually that far from Javascript.