[Brian_K_White]

"just a tool" is always the excuse for allowing a crutch to make you weak and directionless.

If it's really "just a tool", why so defensive?

Sorry. I know I'm a dick. But come on man, don't pretend the effects of crutches doesn't exist. It's silly to try to deny something so obviously observable all day every day, in all possible contexts not just coding.

[UltraSane]

Are Soldiworks, Fusion360, etc crutches that have made engineers "weak and directionless" or are they utterly indispensable tools that have drastically increase their capabilities and productivity and enabled them to create things they otherwise could not?