Taking the long way through something hard sometimes teaches more than the shortcut ever could.

The long route through something hard puts you through steps a shortcut skips, and those steps are where most of the understanding lives. People who arrive the quick way often know the answer without knowing the ground, which holds up fine until something unusual happens. Having done it slowly once means you can rebuild it when it breaks.

If you are stuck on the slow path, ask what it is teaching you that a faster one would not. Write down one thing you now understand properly rather than roughly. Keep the long method available even once you have a quicker one, because the strange days will ask for it.