> I thought the parent made a coherent point that people may avoid hard problems because of the assumption that 1) they need expertise that they don't have and

> I thought the parent made a coherent point that people may avoid hard problems because of the assumption that 1) they need expertise that they don't have and 2) someone else is already working on it. The question raised was: how, in general, do we verify those assumptions? This is what I meant. Though, I do remember I was a bit fuzzy on how to phrase things and opted for a conversational style instead.