Yeah, I can believe this. I've been working in static analysis for C++ for only 2 years or so, but balancing soundness, precision, and reasonable analysis time really does a number on being more holistic about how to approach these problems. Very much feels like your brain just cannot see other ways to reason about programs because it is so sunk into the current way.

I sometimes wonder if this sort of determinism is the sort of thing that is either designed in from the start of a system/PL, or you need near-hardware level control (like Antithesis).