No offense intended, but this is idealistic and somewhat expected from a person living in an ivory tower. >long-standing assumptions are tested and updated as

No offense intended, but this is idealistic and somewhat expected from a person living in an ivory tower. >long-standing assumptions are tested and updated as new information about the current state of the world comes in The entire problem is that this mechanism doesn't exist in practice. Real-world systems tend to accumulate incidental complexity that serves no purpose, with no real way to review it, as any potential mechanism is subject to the same accumulation. That's called corruption. The only way to compress and simplify the outdated complexity that has some chance to work is total system destruction and rebuilding, with previous iterations taken into account. But when you're stuck a local minimum it makes things even worse. Now, if you have another, easier way that would actually work in real world, I'm all ears.