Please interpret me as saying that the hope with the methodology for worst-case MOs is that we can have good reason to believe that the problem is strictly harder than the real case, rather than the methodology itself being to cross your fingers and hope that the MO is strictly harder without good reason.
Please interpret me as saying that the hope with the methodology for worst-case MOs is that we can have good reason to believe that the problem is strictly harder than the real case, rather than the methodology itself being to cross your fingers and hope that the MO is strictly harder without good reason.