>based on my experience, whenever someone says that something is "hard" or "complicated" or "difficult", it means 1 of 2 things: Either the person doesn't under

>based on my experience, whenever someone says that something is "hard" or "complicated" or "difficult", it means 1 of 2 things: Either the person doesn't understand it and assumes that no one else could understand it, or the person understands it, just wants to protect his/her job, and keeps everything a secret, forcing everyone else to reverse engineer his/her work. No exceptions. Not even remotely close to true. Some things are inherently hard, regardless of the motivation of somebody describing them as hard. We have 80 years of experience building software, millions of bugs - and bugs costing millions, or billions, space explosions, medical equipment failures, national security compromises, and many other everyday issues, plus delayed projects with huge budgets, and going way past their budgets. All this hard empirical evidence doesn't translate to "building software isn't hard, it's just because of ignorance/job security saying so".