I think the analogy can still make sense if you think about it differently. A fruit farmer will collect a lot of fruit at once, but me a fruit eater that is on

I think the analogy can still make sense if you think about it differently. A fruit farmer will collect a lot of fruit at once, but me a fruit eater that is only hungry for one fruit don’t want to collect extra fruit. So instead of shaking the tree and causing more fruit than I need to drop to the ground, I grab for just one. Because I am lazy I don’t want to bring a ladder to get one piece of fruit. So I reach for the low hanging fruit :) Likewise, when I program I am looking for one thing to do. And sometimes that leads me to reach for the low hanging fruit there as well. Personally I like to do low hanging fruit as start of the day work only and then try to do something more important for the rest of the day until I get tired.