Both empirically and theoretically, verification is often much more tractable than discovery.

Software development is a highly complex task and verification becomes not just validation of the output but also verification that the work is solving the problem desired, not just the problem specified.

I'm empathetic to that scenario, but this was a problem with software development to begin with. I would much rather be in a situation of reducing friction to verification than reducing friction to discovery.

Cognitive load might be the same but now we get a potential boost in productivity for the same cost.