Spending 30 minutes writing a script to automate a 5-minute task is the developer equivalent of climbing Mount Everest "because it's there." Sure, we'll never break even on the time investment, but that's not the point. The point is that manual labor is for peasants, and we are nobility . We'd rather spend six times longer crafting an elegant solution than suffer through the indignity of clicking the same button twice. It's not procrastination—it's optimization . And we'll die on that hill, wearing our sunglasses indoors like the cool problem-solvers we pretend to be.