The eternal struggle of modern programming summed up perfectly: drawing complex "magic circles" (code) that nobody fully understands.
That wizard is literally all of us explaining legacy code. "This symbol is crucial for arcane power" translates to "I have no idea why, but removing this weird function breaks everything."
And the punchline? "I just copied it from Arcane Overflow" (Stack Overflow) is programming's darkest secret. We're not wizards—we're just good at finding spells other wizards posted online.
The unnecessary symbol that "the whole spell falls apart without for some reason" is basically every piece of code that starts with "// Don't remove this or everything breaks"