You say that like it's bad, but that's just life. We're trying to fit a whole universe into 3 pounds of meat. If we stopped to truly understand anything before

You say that like it's bad, but that's just life. We're trying to fit a whole universe into 3 pounds of meat. If we stopped to truly understand anything before taking action, we'd never get anywhere. That's especially true in technology, where whole armies of people are working to complicate things as fast as possible. For the best of reasons, of course. But when I started out, I could read one short book and have a pretty good understanding of my computer's processor, and from there it wasn't much further to understanding the whole computer. Now I could spend days just understanding, say, processor cache strategies [1]. A field that is super interesting, but if I am to get any of my actual work done, I can't afford to dig into that and the many, many other similar subtopics. I'm going to get a casual understanding of something, do my best to make something useful, and only dig in further when I'm forced to. When I do have to dig in, it comes in two cases for me. One is where there is something necessary complexity that I would have to learn about regardless. E.g., if something is too slow, I need to learn about what happens under the hood to do proper performance tuning. Great, fine, I will learn it. But then there's the other bucket, which includes unnecessary complexity, bad abstractions, poorly considered UX, and the like. For me, git is clearly in that bucket. I intentionally have very simple development flows. Git can do a great deal, 98% of which I not only don't need, I actively don't want. [2] So I'm going do my best to remain ignorant of its inner workings, stick with my small number of commands, and very occasionally refer to "Oh Shit, Git!?!" [3] And I'm perfectly happy with that until it gets replaced with a technology that better matches the domain. [1] e.g.: https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/05/21/igpu-cache-setups-compared-including-m1/ https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/05/21/igpu-cache-setups-comp... [2] An example of what I don't want: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRpPPuKf/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRpPPuKf/ [3] https://ohshitgit.com/ https://ohshitgit.com/