The stories hardware devs have about individual chip datasheets causing hours or weeks of pain...
It's most fun when you can prove the vendor's datasheet is lying about some pin or some function, but they still don't update it after a decade or more. So everyone integrating the chip who hasn't before hits the exact same speed bump!
A junior EE can build the circuits from the examples in the datasheet.
A mid-level EE can build configurations NOT shown in the datasheet.
A Senior EE can tell you where the datasheet is wrong.
It's most fun when you can prove the vendor's datasheet is lying about some pin or some function, but they still don't update it after a decade or more. So everyone integrating the chip who hasn't before hits the exact same speed bump!