I feel like the recon can vary wildly. At times it can be quite subtle and you don’t notice it until after the fact.
Case in point: I spent four days or so from Friday through Monday letting the gradual unfolding happen, feeling I didn’t have the mental bandwidth to focus on code, but sensing the complexity of the code was the problem rather than the number of internal factors going on.
Over those four days what I was doing was working out (primarily subconsciously) how did my personal spiritual and moral outlook interact with the way WB works, and how could I manage my actions to make it work for me uniquely? I was taking an approach of finding actions I could take to improve myself and my ordinary value proposition to others, which in retrospect is about being able to create the mindset to be in congruence with the aura the sub generates.
For other people with a different perspective on what makes a person desirable (perhaps a more simplistic one), there wouldn’t be as much of that kind of recon of re-organizing to go on before results hit.
Fast forward to yesterday and today, the concepts around Vulkan seem easier to follow (although I’m still feeling my eyes glaze over when I read or hear about Tait-Bryan angles). The amount of mental bandwidth available to manage complex topics in your head does go down when recon is going on. For me I guess, until recently, I haven’t need to examine systems of sufficient complexity to notice the difference.