Everyone wants a shortcut until they realize the long way was where the skills were.

The long route is not just slower, it is where the learning is stored. Every awkward hour of doing it the hard way builds something in your hands that cannot be handed over: the feel for when it is going wrong, the small corrections nobody writes down. Skip the hours and you arrive at the same place without any of that.

When you are tempted to take the version that does the work for you, ask what you are trying to end up with. If it is the finished thing, take it. If it is the ability, do the boring part on purpose, at least once.