I think guess and check pissed you off because its taught as guess a random number and check they don't really teach you how to guess smartly and then you waste

I think guess and check pissed you off because its taught as guess a random number and check they don't really teach you how to guess smartly and then you waste your time guessing in the wrong direction mindlessly. Its like teaching stands they should checkout every array slot when there are bits of knowledge that you can teach to do a binary search and get to an answer faster. And the math intuition to build the pattern of guessing is much less especially for high school level problems.