Because prior to seeing it happen, slime mold configuration wasn't expected to be equivalent to railroad optimization. And then it was. Saying things are obvio

Because prior to seeing it happen, slime mold configuration wasn't expected to be equivalent to railroad optimization. And then it was. Saying things are obvious after they've happened is 100% useless. Demonstrating you have the mental models to say these things predictively is pretty exciting, though. If you can do that, go become a scientist. Use those models. Publish papers. You'll get into Science, too.