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by zephraph 3467 days ago
Oh man! That exactly describes my 2016 experience. We spent the entire year working on a project at work. It started off with a lot of magic to make on-boarding other "non-technical" people easier. After the summer we began ditching magic for a simplistic approach.

The thing about magic is it's just as mystical when it breaks as it is when it works. That's why it's magic.

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"The thing about magic is it's just as mystical when it breaks as it is when it works."

That's the most concise way of describing the problem I've seen yet. I'm stealing that. Thank you!