[thisisit]

> you still need to poke around, figure out what you want, what to do, etc.

Is it different? because then:

> you can even be vague, and they'll probably do an ok job if it's not something super complicated

That's lot of qualifiers to say maybe, should be possible - how does someone who is not a software engineer know what is complex, vague or ok. There are lot of assumptions to say - This time it is different.

It is entirely possible it is different but I am yet to find a convincing argument.