You :)

While that sounds good in principle, it’s effectively impossible to implement in reality.

The author’s proposal is a more modest and achievable one that accomplishes nearly the same thing

Welcome to the world of web administration

That was my exact experience too when I first started out.

Things that should have worked didn’t, and things that shouldn’t have worked did

And then eventually the things that should have worked started working, with no clear indication of why they weren’t working, or why they suddenly started working.

All I can say is that it gets easier with time