A good analogy is making pancakes or biscuit batter. You have to stop far earlier than I'm comfortable with, or the outcome is ruined. This is because there ar

A good analogy is making pancakes or biscuit batter. You have to stop far earlier than I'm comfortable with, or the outcome is ruined. This is because there are tons of (nearly) invisible processes going on, and you need to trust the recipe that people have come up with for getting good results. And trying to understand every input and process could quickly become an entire career for any of these topics.