Possibly? At this point there are a lot of manuals out there and it's unreasonable to try and read them all. Developers work with a plethora of tools and I th

Possibly? At this point there are a lot of manuals out there and it's unreasonable to try and read them all. Developers work with a plethora of tools and I think modern tools are getting better at not being surprising but some of these old tools have design choices that differ from modern habits. I think this might be a bit easier to appreciate if you've ever worked at a young company and made choices because you have to (oh, we'll use MySQL, that sounds better than Postgres) and then give yourself an extra three months work in two years when you finally come up against a shortcoming in the tech. We have to make an awful lot of decisions and generally don't have the budget in time or money to fully grok the options we're deciding between.