[ck2]

I am not so certain. Note their question is not if there is another way - they are asking how to manage all the statements they are planning to write.

Imagine being given a problem such as "add any two given integers but do not use math operators".

A person without anything but if/then/else knowledge would proceed to try to write

   if (a==1 && b==2) c==3  

and repeat it for every variation until they gave up.

Someone with more core experience and coding instinct would immediately recognize there must be away to set patterns for 0-9 and then analyze each decimal place, apply a matrix, or a number of other approaches.

[recursive]

Certain business logic can not be generalized as neatly as arithmetic. I work in health care. It is a real problem.

[novaleaf]

i don't see why people downvoted you.

I write AI perception systems for "realtime simulations", and you are exactly correct.

while on the surface it may seem like "if/else" will give you the solution you need, the sheer number of permutations will make it infeasable.

That said, there are "known solutions" and some novel solutions to this problem too. Perhaps if/else is really what this person needs, but there are other potentially better solutions documented.