[steamer25]

Yeah it seems analogous to bike shedding or Paul Graham's 'blub' paradox. I.e., "we don't understand that and haven't [realized that we've] needed it to date therefore it's probably not important and certainly not of interest".

I like your conservation-of-mental-energy interpretation.

[fwdpropaganda]

TIL about the Blub paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blub_paradox#The_Blub_paradox

Thanks for that.