I haven't read Seeing Like A State. I have to say, i am extremely skeptical about the author's fable about forestry. Commercial foresters today still mostly use

I haven't read Seeing Like A State. I have to say, i am extremely skeptical about the author's fable about forestry. Commercial foresters today still mostly use monocultures with evenly-spaced planting patterns, and i simply don't believe that they would be doing that if there was a straightforwardly better way to grow trees, even it was less "legible". This has a powerful scent of Gladwell-esque insight porn - the sort of story we love because it's counter-intuitive and makes us feel cleverer than people who haven't heard it. I don't suppose we have any foresters on this board who can comment?