In a few cases, Ged didn’t even do that — he guessed. So there was no rule there.“You need to understand it” to me is a rule. The way of “understanding” being individual to each wizard is to me more like different learning strategies, or people using different mnemonics for th...
I believe that it’s possible to learn this stuff and eventually it doesn’t become a chore anymore, it’s just something you do automatically – and then you get the best of both worlds. That said however, I don’t have any problems with people who want to use Soylent. Go for it!