[djtango]

Speaking about not outsourcing practice reminds me of the physical analogue...

I have heard about people talk about "farmer's strength" to reference a very natural functional strength that is earned by the gruelling and diverse physical demands of doing farm labour for a lifetime.

Now people have invented various training regimes to try to reproduce that kind of strength outside of the original farming environment.

Edit - As an aside, it just occurred to me that I am both a functional strength and functional programming proponent (facepalm). Perhaps in the future after people seeking to strengthen their minds through via mental gymnastics, FP will see a renaissance

[BobaFloutist]

It's kind of the opposite of strength training regimens, it's more like people saying "Why would I pick up the weight by hand when forklifts exist? When, in the real world, when doing a job, am I going to be expected to pick up dumbbells by hand lol? I'll just use a forklift every time."