They're as dumb / clever as people are. Unless we had a crystal ball we were unlikely to do better than the market and we would have likely predicted demand to

They're as dumb / clever as people are. Unless we had a crystal ball we were unlikely to do better than the market and we would have likely predicted demand to go down during the pandemic as well and decommissioned some of the sawmills that we need right now. If you predicted what the article is citing as the causes for the shortage, you would have started a sawmill in 2020.