Alchemy has always been considered somewhat more akin to magic than chemistry. It speaks of things that seem impossible, as if they aren't. But consider what you have witnessed of the years you have been alone: many things you held for impossible in your youth, you now consider normal as everyday tasks.
Let me give an example: I have been a software engineer all of my career. Started off with the terrible language named Cobol, which now only reminds me of the bankers in the Harry Potter movies. Back then I would never have dreamed of what I just did this afternoon: tell Grok 2 to write me a program by simply describing its functionality. It wasn't a hole in one, but that may have had to do with me not properly stating what I wished to receive...
Manifesting a program has suddenly become much easier!