It’s too bad, really. While it’s easy to get discouraged about such things, over the course of my career all that learning of “pointless” tech has made me a muc

It’s too bad, really. While it’s easy to get discouraged about such things, over the course of my career all that learning of “pointless” tech has made me a much better programmer, designer, architect, and troubleshooter. The only way you build intuition about systems is learning them deeply.