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> If you pay attention to what it's doing you can learn so much!

I think your post is fair but it's worth pointing out that learning via watching is much less effective than learning via doing.

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I used to believe that was universally true, but then I learned about the "worked-example effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worked-example_effect

Your link mentions the expertise reversal effect where the redundancy of worked examples can actually hamper an experienced students abilities, vs. letting the more experienced student work it out for themselves.

It leads to less cohesive shared vision on how to solve problems. In groups where I am trying to foster a shared technical vision, I try to get people to do “see one, do one, teach one” for procedures that are common enough to come up repeatedly (and as a method for discovery for where automation would be a bigger win). Pure green-fields software dev sometimes is doing such novel things that that doesn’t work well, but much of routine software maintenance is discovery of the steps needed to add a new flow or a new customer type or a new configurable behavior, which benefit from consistency.

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