This too. Once you get to the end of the game you're so fucking relieved to be rid of the damned thing you never, ever, ever want to crack the source open again

This too. Once you get to the end of the game you're so fucking relieved to be rid of the damned thing you never, ever, ever want to crack the source open again. A weeks after it goes gold you might not even have a machine with a working build stack on it to even patch the code.