What do you make of the fact that CoT doesn't necessarily have to be linear human intelligible language to be useful to the model? It seems as though both appro

What do you make of the fact that CoT doesn't necessarily have to be linear human intelligible language to be useful to the model? It seems as though both approaches potentially require sophisticated techniques. Since CoT seems to work well enough in practice provided it isn't adversarial wouldn't the other approach be expected to perform similarly?