A dull knife you cannot control, is slides across the surface, it can slip. Try cutting onions with a dull knife. You will cry yourself out of the room.
>Afterwards I almost invariably have the thought "it took me how long to write just that?" and start thinking I ought to have used a different tool.
I think there is also a psychological bias, we feel more "productive" in a more verbose language. Subconsciously at least, we think "programmers produce code" instead of thinking "programmers build systems".