This is interesting and aligns with Jacques Ellul's thesis in The Technological Bluff. The bluff (as in poker) was that technique or efficiency is really a process drive towards complexity. We have, in your example, used computers to build more efficient structures. The effect is that we have become separated from the design process. Pen and paper is genetic and more similar to building than cad. It is much more accessible to design on paper. Anyone can do it, but you have to be a trained cad engineer--complexity.

I am blown away by the artists we see on Nostr. What they can do with the most basic physical instruments is outstanding and awe-inspiring. I am much less impressed by work done on computers. It seems cheap and easy.