I find, the fact that i don't understand code is, often, the mental model of mine does not fit the mental model the writer had. Often it turns out that the writ

I find, the fact that i don't understand code is, often, the mental model of mine does not fit the mental model the writer had. Often it turns out that the writer made things more complicated than needed. Over engineering is a thing. When asking questions, including "why?", people seem to start to become uncomfortable and it becomes hard to have a constructive conversation.