I don't disagree with you but there's still a lot of sports pseudoscience out there, and/or science that gets ignored, and people can really overestimate the ef

I don't disagree with you but there's still a lot of sports pseudoscience out there, and/or science that gets ignored, and people can really overestimate the effects of some technique or gear for a given scenario. I guess I see it as the flip side of the coin maybe. Changing the goalposts with improvements in gear and engineering mask a lot of training improvements too in my opinion. In general I feel like maximal performance improves but why it's improving is often a mystery, and whether those improvements would matter to average athletes is also lost on people. There's kind of a shotgun approach to it all, and less so trying to sift through whether a particular thing matters and when. I guess what's frustrating to me is this sense that people just kind of chase around the latest training idea, or latest marginal gear gain, ignoring that it will never make a practical difference to them in particular at their level of performance or setting, or might actually be harmful. My sense is it drives up product costs dramatically due to demand for (or supply limited to?) unnecessary things, and leads to a lot of confusion about what you "should" be doing and bad advice. I think in the past people could also get stuck with bad ideas or worse gear, and would never want to go back in time in athletics, so I don't want to come across as a sort of sports luddite. But I do think the signal to noise ratio has gone way down even as the amount of information has gone way up, and as a result I'm not sure the changes are as beneficial as they could be, or are even harmful or wasteful. In some fields it feels like the very top athletes are maybe performing 1-2% better or something, but we ignore that's due to changing the goalposts sometimes, and everyone else is getting worse or staying the same while spending way more money than they should, even when they're never going to podium at all, nor is that their motivation for being in the sport to begin with. Some fields seem better about this all than others, too, which is kind of interesting to compare and contrast sometimes.