Having a solid long term vision is plan, only if the solid long term plan is any good. You trade stability for flexibility. It takes time to steer a big ship,

Having a solid long term vision is plan, only if the solid long term plan is any good. You trade stability for flexibility. It takes time to steer a big ship, even if your current plan has clearly extremely negative effects (e.g. killing all the sparrows resulting in a locust population boom during the Great Leap Forward). A command economy is about as big as a ship can get.