This sounds like a hack, but after doing it for long enough, you realize it's just a much-needed refactoring. "Doing the dishes" is made up of individual actio

This sounds like a hack, but after doing it for long enough, you realize it's just a much-needed refactoring. "Doing the dishes" is made up of individual actions, guys. If the outcome of your actions is that your sink is "mostly clean, but has a bowl in it," that's...just fine!