Yes that slows the rate of change, but the rate of change adjusts based on the times (and hopefully it’s reasonably optimal but that would be hard to measure ob

Yes that slows the rate of change, but the rate of change adjusts based on the times (and hopefully it’s reasonably optimal but that would be hard to measure objectively because it’s a complicated risk-vs-reward, explore-vs-exploit trade-off). Eg Historical revolutions usually saw rapid changes in many areas like politics, art, culture, technology. Societies (like organisms and ecosystems) are extremely complicated so there are serious risks to evolving too fast so slow isn’t automatically bad.