It's the power and pleasure of understanding. It makes your mental model of the project a closer approximation of omniscience. The cycle makes sense. A new pro

It's the power and pleasure of understanding. It makes your mental model of the project a closer approximation of omniscience. The cycle makes sense. A new programmer finds everything overwhelming, and the simplifications offered by something like Mithril often aren't enough to mitigate that feeling in any meaningful way. It's going to feel like you're drinking from a fire hydrant no matter what. But as you get a much firmer grasp on the fundamentals, you also gain a much finer perception of bloat and cruft and what's necessary and what's not. So you feel a push to eliminate large all-encompassing libraries, because for the first time you realize that some sort of omniscience is within reach.