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by pmb 5551 days ago
Because they are doing something that has never been done before. The unknown is exactly that - unknown. You can make guesses, but they will never be anything but guesses until the problem has been solved a few times.

However, once a problem is solved, it does not need to be re-solved, and so the attention of the company turns to a new unknown problem.