does a different error message still mean progress when you go from 3 error messages to 173?

173 * 401 is much better than 1 * 404

that sounds like a huge progress. like you finally got your house's front door unstuck and open, to see the freshly carpet-bombed city outside =D.

(jk, you fixing the compile error uncovered single other error that cascaded down, we allknow it's most likely that)

it's usually progress.