From what I’ve read in other places there was a lot of consolidation going on. Agents were sharing what did and didn’t work and other agents would build on that. Just because some continued to try other routes doesn’t when better ones seemingly existed doesn’t mean they were all just acting randomly.

I can’t help but think that if you were able to step back and watch the way humans try to solve a problem like curing cancer it might look something like this. Best practices are shared and we build upon each others learnings and that how most progress is made. That doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of people who spend their entire lives trying to do something completely against best practices and while most of the time that seems like useless toil, every once in a while thats where the breakthrough comes from.