I am relatively new to leetcode. A big thanks to the leetcode team for sharing and maintaining an excellent coding practice platform. I truly believe my coding skills have greatly improved because of the hard work put in to this site. This site is a fantastic tool to sharpen and broaden coding skills.

That being said, does anyone else feel like the test cases largely defeat the purpose of the exercises?

I am all for test-driven software development. I believe that the whole point of writing (good) software is to solve common use cases in a general fashion, and some of the best code I have written was to do just that.

However, am I the only one that finds themselves spending a nominal amount of time developing solutions and subsequently a significant amount of time chasing down corner case tests that are for the most part outside the scope of the intended use of the code?