2/ The comment [A] continues: "Crucially, this iteration would only work well at producing such insights if the iterator did not have access to the final [idea] in advance, as this naturally inhibits the exploration of alternate routes to the [idea] that are superficially «dead ends», but in fact end up being highly instructive in the nature of their failure" Actually, the term #ansatz is used in [A][B] rather than my approximative simplification "[idea]" (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansatz)