Meticulous, yes. Methodical. Educated. They were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and infighting. And there were days, good days, when by anyone's judgment, they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new. Except maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more.
I was very much against frameworks initially: tailwind, bootstrap etc. However, when I started really building sites & apps using components, I found tailwind made my life a lot easier, so I could easily see and change styling while writing code/html, and it would only affect that component.
Beforehand, I was trying to come up with names for CSS classes all the time, and then I'd change one thing, and fuck up styling on a diff page.
80/20 Pareto principle I tend to think of quite a bit.
Approx. 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. That helps to focus/prioritize. So many times we get lost in details, or the thing that just came up, or the thing that one person is shouting loudest about. However, it's important to focus on the things that have the biggest impact first, and then go down the list as needed.
What does the office secrete?