That analogy really didn't work for me. "Crawling towards the horizon" seems to correspond to option 2, continuing to run the business at a much slower pace. Op

That analogy really didn't work for me. "Crawling towards the horizon" seems to correspond to option 2, continuing to run the business at a much slower pace. Options 3+4 are more like stopping to look at the car, take a breath and re-evaluate whether it's designed right.