> Playing coy about how long it takes to build a deck based on a sketch and current availability, while making cute wordplay about how ‘the deck has to be built before one can know what deck there was to build to begin with’…? Whatever, Confucius, it really doesn’t sound like there’s enough deck building experience here, and the obfuscation seems unserious and anxiety related.

Ouch. Usually the ones writing very aggressive comments filled with attacks on stereotypes are the ones with anxiety problems :) You are fighting with the windmills. I do make estimates, and I'm usually better than many at it. It doesn't mean that the others like my estimates.

Also, you didn't even understand what I'm saying. TL;DR: You need to allocate a considerable amount of time on analyzing the task to make the estimate (around 10% of the time it'd take to solve it). I also take a jab at people injecting workarounds for the sake of keeping it in the estimated time and failing.