Coding Questions and other Quandaries

[Hackwiz]

The last time I was farting around with the jump code for this game was about a year and a half ago.
I was just learning how to make a working button activator code lol.
So, now that I understand it better, when you shared this way to do it:

04179fa0 60840001 #Default state of code being 'de-acivated'
2873ef10 ffbf0040 #16-bit If statement for button activator; allow other buttons being pressed
04179fa0 60840000 #Code, word RAM write
e0000000 80008000 #Final terminator

I'm thinking, why didn't I think of that?

My takeaway?

There's more than one way to accomplish a goal.

&

Don't miss the forest for the trees.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!