Damn, lol, I apologize.
My original post was based on how the imfamous League of Legends streamer Tyler1 started really getting into chess, spending tens of thousands of games perfecting the "cow" opening, and ONLY the cow opening. He invested far more time into it than the opening's creator.
I really hate to talk about my personal life, but maybe the closest thing involving me is when I used a programming library that was missing some features, so I implemented those features myself. But then the creator of the library implemented those features themselves without ever seeing anything I did. In other words, if I had done nothing at all and just waited then the problem would have solved itself. Though I was actually USING the library, so I didn't have a real reason to move on.
Do you have any hypothetical scenarios where someone might experience something like this, but the solution couldn't ever be to move on to something else?
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