I wonder if the right vocabulary is to talk about local optima, even though that isn&#x27;t really the problem with being incrementalist as a rule. Or maybe once upon a time &quot;paradigm shift&quot;, also not the right concept.<p>Anyway, my point being that constant iteration or the use of heuristics have value, but it can also be useful to understand models, and occasionally take a break to think big about the direction you want to move in the long term, with the realization that many of the steps to get there will violate some pet heuristics.