When I asked people who had already successfully made something work and they gave me replies such as "magic" it really used to frustrate me in the pre-internet

When I asked people who had already successfully made something work and they gave me replies such as "magic" it really used to frustrate me in the pre-internet days. Especially in cases like this where they had their better "colourful WYSIWYG Windows application" while the rest of us are stuck on our "drab black and white fixed-width text editors"