Understanding Drupal

I'm finally understanding what it's like to write code for Drupal. Essentially, you have to imagine the least efficient way of doing something, then look for how to do that... 'cause that's exactly what Drupal does.

I mean, why would anyone want to create additional columns to a user table when they could just put a bunch of serialised data into a string in the user table? It's just so easy! Why didn't I think of that?

Oh, right, 'cause I'm not insane.