The interview replied “well wouldn’t you have to do the same on a computer?” chuckles to himself at how clever he is that he realized that
No numb-nuts, on a computer I can move lines around by pressing Alt+Down. Here I need to erase the entire thing and re-write it, which wastes precious time, so instead I spend way more time pre-planning the exact layout of the code, which wastes more precious time.
And in the end you take a picture of it to transcribe into the computer to send to the hiring overlords. Just let us use our tooling to begin with.
Ugh.