Yes. I always found it odd, especially in mathematical textbooks, but to some degree also other areas, when a field is explained top down from a theory that is the end result of hundreds of years of discovery, fiddling and trial and error. As if that whole theory was god given and just happened without motivation or process. Besides making it harder to understand by going abstract idea first, it also makes it harder to develop an understanding for how people come up with and improve ideas over time.