Related: Parkinson's Law of Triviality, and the Queen's pet duck in Battle Chess (when developers become aware of management's need to unnecessarily "finishing

Related: Parkinson's Law of Triviality, and the Queen's pet duck in Battle Chess (when developers become aware of management's need to unnecessarily "finishing touch" all work and begin making slightly-inefficient choices intentionally to give the work a "shear point" where the management can feel like they're contributing by removing something obviously incorrect). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality Similar processes have been used for decades by movie and television creatives to move the Overton window on media censorship---early cuts of a project will have something obviously grotesque and culturally repugnant, so the censors lock onto that and miss the risqué thing the creator wanted to get to their audience.