[typicalrunt]

Let's take programming out of the equation with a quote.

"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." - John Godfrey Saxe.

The problem with looking at any recent code that you write is that you know how it was made (i.e.: you are in the kitchen making the sausages). But it's different if you are the customer eating the sausage. Even if the cook told you how the sausages were made, you still don't have first-hand knowledge, so you elide over the means (good or bad) to get to the ends. It's only when you really dig in and start to understand the process you start to see that the people making the same things you make are in the same boat as you.