Yes, it really is like that.

I had one of these yesterday... "Could not find data source blahblahblah" "But I configured the data source!" "But did you call it 'blahblahblahblah'? No."

Some folks get so flustered by the error message existing that they panic instead of reading it. I find that you have to keep patiently pointing out to them that the solution to their problem is right there if they just calm down and read. Eventually, it sinks in...eventually...most of the time.

If error messages were diligently written, debugging is much very like a dialog 🙂 Next step will be AI fixing errors according to error message