My gut-feeling on all of this is ... “if, by now, the computer cannot ‘well-enough take care of itself,’ in these what-should-be familiar waters ...” then by now you really should be asking yourself, “why not?’   “What must I be doing wrong, here?”   “Why is what I am now doing, standing-out so terribly much from what tens-of-thousands of computer programmers before me chose to do?”