An Insight Tangential to Thorsten Ball's Intention

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Reading yesterday’s Register Spill post I got hooked on this sentence:

Is [the success of frequent and significant rewrites by the founders of Zed] because they have been working on text editors for over a decade and know the domain well and how things should work and how they currently work is just a detail?

I love the idea of seeing something for how it should be with its current workings as “just a detail.”