And both competitors had won. It had the momentum of an existing product line, of suppliers, consumers, marketing strategy et al to consider. I realized that yes there are improvements and behavioral gains to be acheived from more of those things than if there were a dearth. The unfettered freedom to go and do and become . No surprises, especially harmful ones.
Survival requires both qualities, both techniques.
The stability of a system . . . Systems are healthy when they are in control of their resources and when there are the skills and option space choices to appropriately enact possibilities . Wonderfully, even primal physics systems can be evaluated in these ways. Quantum states, electron shell energy levels - are not just predictably patterned and restrictive states . Deterministic and statistical at once.