I don't think that's clear at all. Many "loved" sayings are "loved" because they help spur one into behaviours one otherwise would not partake. If you think about it, sayings about predisposed behaviour can often seem unremarkable. It's like corporate values: the published corporate values are ultimately as much aspirational as actual, because the purely "actual" values are assumed. (For the same reason, if you ask someone what is most important to them, no one says "breathing" or "air".)

> But they move so fast they haven't had a chance to understand the saying!

Iterating on NOOP can be done a lot faster, and at much less expense, than iterating on something; I'd like to think the eventual steady state of such folks will be to do absolutely nothing very, very quickly. ;-)

Hey, human reasoning can take you to some dark places, so I don't begrudge people where they end up. I'm just confused by how... broad? the phenomenon is. I'd expect some kind of Darwinian forces/selection bias that would eventually relegate such thinking to a quite corner of the universe.