Might the pressure you’re referring to be described as the value/pursuit of monotonic improvement?
Might the solutions you’re suggesting be described as techniques for getting out of local maxima in a field?
The isolation that I hear you pointing at, I would describe as thinking two moves ahead in a game to seek optimal states, instead of immediately ruling out all possible sets of moves where the first makes things “worse” in some way.
Might the pressure you’re referring to be described as the value/pursuit of monotonic improvement?
Might the solutions you’re suggesting be described as techniques for getting out of local maxima in a field?
The isolation that I hear you pointing at, I would describe as thinking two moves ahead in a game to seek optimal states, instead of immediately ruling out all possible sets of moves where the first makes things “worse” in some way.