> One year later and its madness to even contemplate coding manually...

Seriously, why do people assume that what they feel should be how everyone else should be feeling?

I think it's called Normative Cognition or something.

Like: I'm normal, and I do X. Therefore other normal people will also do X. It's the basis for in-group/out-group. We're all normal and they are not. (for some definition of normal).