Something being common sense is not a good argument for it making sense. The most obvious demonstration of that is physics. Our common sense is hopeless at mode

Something being common sense is not a good argument for it making sense. The most obvious demonstration of that is physics. Our common sense is hopeless at modelling the world around us accurately. Maths is better at that. In programming, similarly, algebraic properties and representation in memory should be preferred over a reasoning that something is just “common sense”.