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1. Thing gets made
2. It gains popularity
3. Everyone wants to be #1 on the thing, so people begin working hard at "solving" how the thing really works
4. People get really really fuckin good at "solving" the thing now. Learning how to utilize the thing and get in even the top 25% now requires months of learning and understanding.
5. People literally are writing papers, documentation, guides, books, you name it on how to min max the thing. Getting into the top 10% requires years of knowledge and skill.
6. This one is optional. If utilizing the thing is remotely profitable, it becomes P2W. People make the thing their whole career. Companies pour billions of dollars into the thing. Normies are gated off and resign themselves to the bottom of the barrel.

The downside to humans being so fuckin good at min maxing shit, and is being infinitely curious, and our brains are hard wired to shit out dopamine whenever we progress at something, is nothing is sacred

You name it, some random fucker has min maxed it competitively into a career somewhere.