Cows tend to pass where other cows passed. Herd behaviour. Something like a real world effort optimisation. No use trying to optimise in a week using one brain

Cows tend to pass where other cows passed. Herd behaviour. Something like a real world effort optimisation. No use trying to optimise in a week using one brain something that found a local minima (or maxima) over years and multiple people. Normally the change (and effort) to achieve a better minima (or maxima) has to made on a variable you just can't see or imagine. Something on the line of Chesterton’s Fence.