I built complex web apps, but missed a simple UI paradigm hiding in plain sight

As a developer, it’s easy to get trapped in a hyper-focused bubble. I spend most of my days inside VS Code, architecting web systems, writing Next.js code, tuning AI development tools, and thinking heavily in terms of modular UI. Component-driven architecture—props, state, reusability—is literally second nature to me. If you ask me to build a dynamic platform or structure a front-end interface from scratch, I can map out the components before I even write the first line of JSX. Yet somehow, I co