[Benjammer]

I'm of a mind that true understanding only really comes from questioning the most firmly held "universal truths." I want to know why I know what I know, I have no use for vague quality axioms that put black box abstractions on top of complex systems and processes.

> most people don't know most of the things you need to know to come up with a good answer to what suits "their specific situation".

And most people aren't competent software architects capable of adeptly steering an engineering team in the right choices to make. I'm not sure I understand the point here, or why you want to make a technical field like software engineering dumbed down to the point where "most people" can intuit the right decisions to make simply by asking HN what "the best thing" is.