The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 29:3 describes the mechanism of the Haran well with the precision of a halachic note.
The flocks gathered. The stone was rolled from the mouth of the well. The sheep were watered. The stone was set back on the mouth of the well in its place. Four actions, in this precise order, every single time.
This is how communal water-sharing worked in ancient Aram. The stone is a regulatory device. If any one shepherd could open the well alone, everyone would overdraw. The rule is: wait until the full assembly is present. Open together. Water together. Close together. No one benefits until everyone benefits.
And then Jacob arrives and breaks the whole system.
The Targum lingers on the normal procedure precisely to make Jacob's violation shine. He will roll the stone away alone, with one arm, and he will water Laban's flock before any other shepherd has drawn a drop. A later reader might ask: was that fair? And the Targum has already answered, in the previous chapter, by listing this as one of the five miracles. When the covenant is moving through a man's hand, the ordinary rules of the well bend.
This also tells us something about the shepherds of Haran. They know the rule. They follow the rule. They are not evil people. They are just people. And then a patriarch walks up, and patriarchs operate on a different rulebook.
The takeaway: communal rules exist to protect the community. Miracles exist to remind the community that the One who gave the rules can suspend them for the sake of the covenant.