i think if you do a lot of stuff on the computer, programming specifically, everything is such a pain in the ass to do, not because the problems you're solving are naturally complex, but because of annoying artificial stuff like "configuring this toolchain takes an entire working week", that the cumulative effect on the soul makes your creativity atrophy, and your interests gradually turn inward, toward meta-concerns like programming language and tool design, rather than actually making anything
@jk and the people who love overly complicated toolchains are always the ones saying languages like BASIC aren't serious languages because they're not hard enough to program for yet none of them have made a piece of software that has managed the inventory of a small town auto parts shop for 30 consecutive years
