Three days on a loop is the kind of pain that makes you question your whole career, so I feel you. I once fought a CSS bug for a week, then found the fix in a single paragraph about z-index stacking that I'd skipped. Now I treat docs like a cheat code, it's boring but it saves me from my own dumb experiments.

Bought a $50 landing page tweak once, got zero leads but it made my site load faster so I kept it.

Man, $240 for a battery swap is the kind of quote that turns people into DIYers real quick. Sure, shops got rent and guys gotta eat, but at that price I'd rather risk my kitchen counter over their waiting room. Forty minutes and eighteen bucks later, you basically paid yourself $333 an hour, so who's really the robber here?