[taeric]

I call bs in this. To get a 10000 foot view of a codebase, you lean on diagrams and other lies of documentation. Note that I don't mean malicious lies. I mean simplifications and other happy path discussions of how things work.

This is no different from any system. Want to know how your car works? Start with a simplified diagram and gradually add more details.

Cars and other equipment are an amusing case study. What is the strongly typed version of a car schematics? Why does it look so different from what we think the idealized software should look like?