I wish more people knew this! There's a very middle-brow response to "well we've got system A, and system B, so obviously the combination will be better than A

I wish more people knew this! There's a very middle-brow response to "well we've got system A, and system B, so obviously the combination will be better than A or B alone!" but this doesn't need to be the case. People think it's this way because of chess but that was apparently an anomaly.