Also it’s usually a few years since you f***** up and you’ve forgotten the pain, the difficulty, to read the instructions and you still have the same crappy tools.
Sure, I get that. But what I don't understand is the people who say that every few years I try to fix something and I made a mess of it. It would be like having one driving lesson and then five years later having another one and wondering why they've made no progress.
The tradespeople that you're calling on to fix plumbing disasters aren't blessed with innate skills, they spent years perfecting their craft - they probably made cock-ups at the beginning too.
Every skill, every skill takes some practice. I speak French pretty well but I didn't have immediate understanding of it, it took several years of regular drills to get to understand it. Talking about DIY disasters after one attempt is like someone going along to one French lesson and then moaning that, after two hours, they can't read Les Miserables in the original language,