That's why I was unsatisfied with every other answer I got from a hardware person about what timing analysis was.
Of course they knew and I didn't.
So it was kind of like absurdly arrogant of me to essentially not believe them, Right, But entirely justified as experts don't understand the essence. They understand their coping mechanisms. It really is a very unusual expert who understands the essence of a question and can distinguish it from their coping mechanism for being taught a really inelegant way to to even frame a question.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jPTxGfaUa84IqsQceKywL?si=3396934d31004b3c, 2:21:43

Although the way Conal Elliott puts it here is arrogant, I do think it’s important, rare and difficult to grasp the different paradigms of what you’re working on deeply.