I think the gist of your comment is reasonable, but it reads as kind of adversarial. Something like:

> Being able to navigate a large, complicated code base is a really important skill, and I think one of the important marks of a senior engineer. A big part of it is also just having the grit to dive in and understand a messy system without having things neatly laid out for you.

Says ~mostly the same thing, but without the condescension.

Maybe your comment is off topic? We are talking about searching. You are talking about good vs not good developers and understanding code. Searching != understanding.