jefe, here is the key in what you just wrote: "the operational savvy of the driver will get 2WD-ers just as far as a dummy driving a 4WD."
I'm the dummy! I'm learning, slowly. Your experience is vast, but mine is only half-vast. (Say that last sentence out loud to get the full meaning.)
I haven't gotten seriously stuck, at least not yet. But (to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld) the problem is that sometimes I don't know what I don't know. They say that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
