I’mma go with “its useful” to do things the hard way often enough to stay in-practice, as the hard way is both often a backup method and either the method newbies are trained on, or a differentiator between newbies who would rather let things slide when the easy way isn’t working, versus motivated people worth incentivizing.
Sometimes the incentive is “not having to attend remedial training”, sometimes its additional training and raise/promotion opportunities. Its worth remembering that todays hard way was often the new, easier way in the past.
It can be useful to do things the hard way. But to clarify, my position isn’t “never do things the hard way”. I was only saying that the hard way is not in all cases virtuous. There’s no innate virtue in difficulty.
I’mma go with “its useful” to do things the hard way often enough to stay in-practice, as the hard way is both often a backup method and either the method newbies are trained on, or a differentiator between newbies who would rather let things slide when the easy way isn’t working, versus motivated people worth incentivizing.
Sometimes the incentive is “not having to attend remedial training”, sometimes its additional training and raise/promotion opportunities. Its worth remembering that todays hard way was often the new, easier way in the past.
It can be useful to do things the hard way. But to clarify, my position isn’t “never do things the hard way”. I was only saying that the hard way is not in all cases virtuous. There’s no innate virtue in difficulty.