This reminds me of when I consulted with a company that wanted to use Rails as their backend. Rails made it incredibly easy to get database results on a web pag

This reminds me of when I consulted with a company that wanted to use Rails as their backend. Rails made it incredibly easy to get database results on a web page. Too easy. They spent the next several months certain that they could "wing it" and still keep developing features. The harsh truth is, they needed to understand what was going on underneath all that "magic". Thankfully they took my advice and hired some Ruby devs. Probably a lot of us can fall into this trap. We do the same 3 steps day in and day out and are lulled into the belief that we "know the system". Until, like you mention, we fall off the happy path.