I don't know if this is a good analogy, but as an Electrical Engineer, the process of simplifying the analysis by going from Newtonian to Lagrangian gave me fla

I don't know if this is a good analogy, but as an Electrical Engineer, the process of simplifying the analysis by going from Newtonian to Lagrangian gave me flashbacks from the first time we used Laplace transforms to solve (previously very, very tedious) circuit analysis problems. Almost felt like cheating.