Yeah, I feel similarly, and kinda grieve how this is not longer a valued skill... I think I've cultivated my taste in many important social dimensions through thinking about what is important to leave in docs and in a note. It's a little strange to know that rarely will people do this work of honing this sense anymore...

> A separate document explaining how a system works can go out of date.

Good documentation does not explain "the how", it captures "the why."

Even the latter can be done automatically from meeting notes, tickets etc.