"You're just doing X, how can that take Y days?!" Where X is something seemingly simple. What makes it more frustrating is that it is often very difficult to p

"You're just doing X, how can that take Y days?!" Where X is something seemingly simple. What makes it more frustrating is that it is often very difficult to precisely describe why it is that X involves so much unintuitive complexity. Also "The users don't care about how it's developed" Except that code quality defines the readability, maintainability, and often-times performance (deeply coupled code can make optimisations very difficult, for example) of an application both during development and afterwards.