My wife and I were on the Seychelles some time back. Our neighbor there was some 60 year old British guy. He was building a house on his land by himself, to rent out as a vacation home. He’d be working during the day and take out his kayak at sunset. He let me look over his shoulders for a bit. Said he had even done the plans for the permit himself. He said anyone can do it. And this house is on the Seychelles - high humidity, heavy thunderstorms. I’m not saying building a house is trivial technology. People can die if you do it wrong. But most of us are working with stuff that is way more complicated than that every single day. If a 60 year old dude on the Seychelles can do it by himself, a proper building company with access to machinery and materials should be able to do it for a price of months of income - not years.
Sure, but I suspect some guy building some home for himself in some tropical paradise has different construction needs than most of the folks here, including me. We have snow in the winter for example, which changes literally everything. And then there is whole world of regulations for given country, Seychelles probably have 10% of the complexity and requirements of typical G7 country. Also, if that guy is doing electricity by himself he is a (dangerous) fool.
As I said - it takes 10 professionals easily a year to build something. It simply does. Just check how their daily work looks like - its messy just like other types of projects, you have unforeseen problems, people drop sick or injured, suppliers can fail to deliver things on time etc.
From IT world - the stuff I hack together in a week takes altogether to bring live 6 months easily, since initial dev is rather small part of it. So maybe adjust your expectations to reality, its not gonna adjust to you.
