Why does making simple diagrams always take 10× longer than it should?

I’ve been chatting with a few people who make diagrams or flowcharts for docs and planning, and everyone says the same thing — it’s slow, clunky, and kills focus.

Curious how you handle it:
– Do you still use tools like Lucid, Miro, or draw.io?
– Do you ever try text-based diagramming (Markdown, Mermaid, etc.)?
– Or have you mostly stopped diagramming because it’s too time-consuming?

I’m doing some research around this workflow frustration and wanted to see how common it really is.

No links, not promoting anything — just exploring what others are running into.