Yes, using best practices is (in some situations) a rational decision, but it is not rationality.
It is also rational to have some division of labor: people who produce the checklists, and people who use them. Because developing good checklists requires time and resources.
Rationality itself is more like the art of creating such checklists, or evaluating the existing ones.
The way to winning includes both using and creating checklists. (I guess the optimal ratio depends on the quality of the existing checklists, on resources we can spend on our own research, on how the environment allows us to acquire more resources if we increase our skills, etc.)
Yes, using best practices is (in some situations) a rational decision, but it is not rationality.
It is also rational to have some division of labor: people who produce the checklists, and people who use them. Because developing good checklists requires time and resources.
Rationality itself is more like the art of creating such checklists, or evaluating the existing ones.
The way to winning includes both using and creating checklists. (I guess the optimal ratio depends on the quality of the existing checklists, on resources we can spend on our own research, on how the environment allows us to acquire more resources if we increase our skills, etc.)