Low downside risk means mistakes don’t hurt. High reversibility means you can always change course. Many paths staying open feels like intelligence rather than indecision. Learning without pain creates the illusion of progress. This is rational at the individual level. No single experiment failing will end your career. But organizational over-indexing on optionality produces strategy drift—a portfolio of pilots that never convert, a roadmap of tests that never ship, a culture that prizes learning over doing.