It's sort of weird, from my engineering background i'm used to the expectation of being able to "derive" an answer from working with first principles. But that'

It's sort of weird, from my engineering background i'm used to the expectation of being able to "derive" an answer from working with first principles. But that's not really how a lot of "technician" work is done - same for cargo cult programming. But suppose that's a benefit of modular/component based systems as you can just replace a part and expect it to "solve" a problem. There's a lot more stuff to it, though.