These are exactly my thoughts: > intuitive sense of those concepts and thus put off by what appears to be an overly formal treatise on obvious principles I do

These are exactly my thoughts: > intuitive sense of those concepts and thus put off by what appears to be an overly formal treatise on obvious principles I do however feel like there it would be helpful for junior/mid engs if there were a stripped down version of the blue book which defines vocab, obvious principle as you say, as general guidance for domain analysis/modelling