This seems to be the engineer's version of a type of sentiment that has been expressed for hundreds, if not thousands of years: once you really understand a thing, it's not magical anymore. A great example of this is Mark Twain's writing on his experience with the Mississippi river before and after being a riverboat captain ("Two Ways of Seeing a River")[1].
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