In research you don’t usually know your precise destination. Maybe LA but definitely not the hotel.
research, in general, is about mapping all of California, not just the quickest route between two points and all the friends helped with that.
You say “Alice tackled the central bottleneck” but you don’t say what that was, only her “solution”. Alice is only key here with the benefit of hindsight. If the I5 didn’t exist or was closed for some reason then one of her friends solutions might have been better.
In research you don’t usually know your precise destination. Maybe LA but definitely not the hotel.
research, in general, is about mapping all of California, not just the quickest route between two points and all the friends helped with that.
You say “Alice tackled the central bottleneck” but you don’t say what that was, only her “solution”. Alice is only key here with the benefit of hindsight. If the I5 didn’t exist or was closed for some reason then one of her friends solutions might have been better.