Look the world I live in, my reality is one where sorting through stuff is indeed a HUGE problem, but it's not caused strictly by things being free and abundant

Look the world I live in, my reality is one where sorting through stuff is indeed a HUGE problem, but it's not caused strictly by things being free and abundant. We have tons of examples of noise and bulk that needs curation that is the cause of people working to make yet more stuff when its not needed. People flood the market with junk trying to capture some of the value. There are tons of duplicate apps or websites each trying to get their money or attention-to-ads. But the greatest free-and-abundant stuff like Wikipedia with no limits and restrictions — that has the capacity to reduce the trends of people making duplicate stuff. I mean, there's lots of examples of excessive production which takes more to sort through which is caused by things being locked-down. Whereas if the best stuff were just free, there would be less incentive for anyone to make and market duplicate products. But I agree with your "complex resource management game" framing, I'm just saying that free and abundant is not the problem. One problem is that we aren't just having the best free and abundant stuff so that we can stop all the noise and duplication.