Why do complex, integrated plants still defeat me?

You can design most processes now. Give you one system, one unit, and you handle it well. But hand you a complex plant, where every system touches every other, and something breaks down. Not your skill. Your sight. This is not a talent problem. You have the talent — you proved it on every process you already mastered. What you lack is a habit: holding the whole plant in your mind at once, so you see how a change in one corner moves everything else. No one taught you this skill, because it is rarely taught. You build it slowly, by tracing connections until they become automatic. You are not doing this alone, nor should you. A pod that designs together can see what one mind misses. Use them. Make the invisible connections visible between you — out loud, on paper — until the system stops hiding from any of you.