Most technical issues summed up in one picture!

Cats are like that all the time

This is true. Look at the goal (get out of cage) and not the usual problem (open cage door).

So when a colleague asks something like "How do I center with css transforms?" I ask what the goal is.
Sometimes it turns out they should be using flex. sometime they just wanted a 2 column layout and didn't need to center anything really.

The definition of debugging, no?

AKA the X Y problem

I do this all the time - focus on a solution. Then a colleague asks me "Hey why don't you skip that complex solution and just do this simple thing?".