Also compromises. Exceptional status enables pulling through with uncompromising solutions that would be wildly impossible without that status. Unfortunately,

Also compromises. Exceptional status enables pulling through with uncompromising solutions that would be wildly impossible without that status. Unfortunately, some problems are solved much better with heavy compromises ("listening to every stakeholder"), other problems can only be solved well by an uncompromising solution. The meta-problem is telling one from the other ahead of time. I don't know if that's even possible.