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There is the quality known in German as fingerspitzgefühl (literally “fingertip feeling”): the ability of an experienced worker to gauge the situation they’re dealing with from perception and past experience, in ways that one can’t codify into a ring binder of rules. It comes with experience and is a skill. And this applies to even the most menial labour: anything requiring effort has more and less efficient ways of doing it, as well as hazards.
The fact that fingerspitzgefühl cannot be codified into intellectual property and rented out to interchangeable low-paid day labourers must be burning up the owners, once again robbed of the dream of independence from those who actually do their work. Some argue that that’s what’s driving the vast amount of investment in AI: a push to deskill labour once and for all, eliminating human fingerspitzgefühl and replacing it with reverse centaurs following orders from their VR glasses.
This is a big problem with our modern world. A tendency to not believe that which is relatively easy to describe and quantify. This problem gets worse as our tools and mechanization give us more complete control over things.