Regex Must Be Destroyed

Oh look, it's the ancient language of the dark arts! Someone asks you what you're looking at, and you're just staring at ^[\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$ like it's the One Ring itself. "It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it," you whisper dramatically, because NO ONE can truly read regex without experiencing at least three existential crises and questioning every life choice that led them to this cursed moment. You wrote it six months ago? Congrats, it's now an ancient artifact and you are NOT the same person who created this monstrosity. The symbols mock you. The backslashes laugh at your pain. And somewhere, a senior developer is cackling because they KNOW you'll have to maintain this cryptic spell for the next decade.