Perhaps you are using your intuition. I do let it guide me without overanalizing every decision but more like feeling it. Programming is also an art and intuition can play a bigger role in it. Engineering is the organized form but built on pre-existent ideas enforcing helpful boundaries.

I think when faced with too many slices in decision-making and decision considerations as you put it, it could become overwhelming especially if one is not completely sold on a certain ideology/opinion to fight for. Thats where intuition can be a good guide. However, intuition can do only as much, it needs to feed off at times with some external input such as this type of opinionated articles.