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You almost certainly would feel different.

I find that I can solve most of my jira tasks in 10 mins with string.length and string.charAt()

My estimated time to completion with regex is literally undefined

That's just unfamiljarity. Whatever works for you is good. Sometimes the hammer does work on the screw, you just have to use it right.

Or we might end up with https://xkcd.com/927/

We're all unfamiliar with assembly and electrical engineering too right, should we all invest the time to learn how to program bare metal? Only when the performance is needed, right?

No, you completely misunderstood and went off on a tangent. My comment means the exact opposite to what you understood.

I've never used tools like that and I feel the same. Regexes provide a simple, well supported solution to a huge number of problems, and I'm not sure what the second problem is supposed to be.

The quote is fun, and I've sometimes used variants of it, but I don't get why the target is regular expressions.

The second problem comes when the regex fails because of the edge cases you didn't think of shows up. :-)

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