Comment by LeonB
6 years ago
The majority of times people have said “why don’t you just...” to me the answer is that if they understood what $thing was trying to do they wouldn’t have asked the question. They’re not being “assholes” they’re just headed toward it from a wrong assumption (they’re assumption is that they understand what $thing does, but they don’t.) so my advice to anyone suggesting just do $x is that they need to try to understand what they don’t understand about $thing, don’t even worry about $x.
Sure, so the answer is 'because I'm doing $thing and $x doesn't work'.
They're literally asking _why_.
If you take it as a statement i.e. 'just use $x' then that's a completely different matter.
It would've been easier to explain $thing without having to stop and consider $x. Effort was expended for no gain.