[skissane]

> Why would you reach down into the system and edit the code of the system currently in operation? Because it doesn't already do what you want. Isn't it a bit pathalogical to start by building a system which doesn't do what you want, then building in the tools to let you fix it, so you can use those make it do what you want? Why not skip all the middlemen and make what you want in the first place?

Because what you want is not set in stone for all time. Needs and desires change, and often what you think you want is different from what you actually want, but discovering that can take time.

I spend so much time trying to work out things like "when I click this button in the UI, what does that actually end up doing in the backend?" I wish I could right-click on a UI element and it would take me directly to the backend code which actually implements it. And a system like that should be much quicker to change – it should be much quicker for a new developer to get up to speed with it and start implementing things, rather than spending days (even weeks) trying to understand how it all fits together.