I feel humans like doing something in between, maybe a bit like A* would do sometimes.I wouldn't call it A* because of the lack of a consistent heuristic and al

I feel humans like doing something in between, maybe a bit like A* would do sometimes.I wouldn't call it A* because of the lack of a consistent heuristic and also lack of strictly numeric evaluation, but it's an in-between DFS and BFS for sure (as is every tree search algorithm?). We go deep while we think it's a good lead, because so far things make sense and it'll be less work, but at some point we start questioning our decisions early in the descent and try alternatives.