I am in a long-term-career place and it has its challenges (mostly no leverage on pay...) but the level of knowledge and expertise and proficiency of most peopl

I am in a long-term-career place and it has its challenges (mostly no leverage on pay...) but the level of knowledge and expertise and proficiency of most people is astounding, allowing to do a whole lot with very little people, and to build on knowledge, experience and yes, lots of code and tooling too. Most everything you're thinking about in the domain, has been done at least twice, and you can pick people's brains on the most obscure but important topics and get a pretty good idea on the actual challenges. It can get hard to separate ideas from execution, to 'forget' about the pain of a horrible technical move that still managed to be a commercially success, or to forget the pain of a badly-timed big decision that exploded in your face.