I don't disagree with this sentiment. However, my counter point would be: "What takes 30 seconds to say takes 5 hours to reverse engineer and another 10 hours

I don't disagree with this sentiment. However, my counter point would be: "What takes 30 seconds to say takes 5 hours to reverse engineer and another 10 hours to document." There's power in recording words, especially if you consider the fact that you may not work at the same place forever and people need to come behind you with concrete context to build upon what you created. This is a difficult task without recorded history. I think this point gets lost in these discussions in favor of the immediate meaning.