Doubt every hybrid job ends in a three hour diagnostic nightmare. Gain enough experience and most fixes become pretty routine. Every repair field has its random time sinks, not just this one.

Man, my buddy had that same lightbulb moment with terrain generation! He used to hand-place everything and it just looked so stiff, but adding some noise to the height map totally changed his game.

Eyeballed my deck once, now it drains into my neighbor's yard!