You are trying to move something forward in a thoughtful way. You hit a roadblock. What do you do? We either: optimize for what we can move forward ourselves continue to try to fix the underlying mess (that makes holistic work hard) With #1, there's forward progress. We have "wins" to share. But our pragmatism and drive may exacerbate the underlying mess and create more debt and confusion.
Gut feeling is Simon Wardley's PST and Dave Snowden's Cynefin have relevance to this topic.
https://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Pioneers_settlers_town_planners
https://cynefin.io/wiki/Cynefin_Domains
I strongly identify as closer to #2 than #1.
oh wow john, get.out.of.my.head! too close to home 😂