alt Hacker News/me strokes my long grey beard and nods
People always think "theory is overrated" or "hacking is better than having a school education"
And then proceed to shoot themselves in the foot with "workarounds" that break well known, well documented, well traversed problem spaces
certainly a narrative that is popular among the grey beard crowd, yes. in pretty much every field i've worked on, the opposite problem has been much much more common.