Newbies often would rather just take the expert's opinion.

  • Newbies often would rather just take the expert's opinion.
    • The expert might say, "you can do any of these five options!"
    • But the newbie says, "I don't even know what the tradeoffs are, or how to even make this decision, just tell me your recommendation and I'll do that."
    • Making good, opinionated, balanced calls is hard and requires deep expertise.
    • It requires the calibrated curatorial ability to cut with confidence and to understand the implications of the decision, to not do it naively.
    • To cut you have to understand the tradeoffs that are only obvious with experience.
    • These cuts then make it wildly easier for beginners; instead of time swirling and lost trying to decide among other options, there isn't even a decision to make.
    • This is one of the reasons I love Golang as a language.