What if the space you are searching is not a landscape with hills, but a maze? I'm not saying it is, but the metaphor that makes the post so strong is not part

What if the space you are searching is not a landscape with hills, but a maze? I'm not saying it is, but the metaphor that makes the post so strong is not particularly well-grounded. Maybe we programmers tend to think about life as hill-climbing precisely because that's metaphor we often think about when solving programming problems...