This holds in software as well. I encounter people trying to build solutions for problems that might not even exist, even in the context of addressing a specifi

This holds in software as well. I encounter people trying to build solutions for problems that might not even exist, even in the context of addressing a specific bug. The act of measuring and collecting data is hard work, pretty boring sometimes, and often prescriptive in ways that aren't appealing. It's like we'd rather guess and use the ambiguity to allow ourselves to explore solutions we're more interested in. The alternative is manually profiling and poring through logs, so, I kind of get it.