Comment by discreteevent

> Many people drive cars without being able to explain how cars work.

But the fundamentals all cars behave the same way all the time. Imagine running a courier company where sometimes the vehicles take a random left turn.

> Or interact with people who's thinking they can't explain

Sure but they trust those service providers because they are reliable . And the reason that they are reliable is that the service providers can explain their own thinking to themselves. Otherwise their business would be chaos and nobody would trust them.

How you approached your library was practical given the use case. But can you imagine writing a compiler like this? Or writing an industrial automation system? Not only would it be unreliable but it would be extremely slow. It's much faster to deal with something that has a consistent model that attempts to distill the essence of the problem, rather than patching on hack by hack in response to failed test after failed test.