Well, [recognition-primed decision making] is used in many fields, by, for instance, naval ship commander, tank platoon leaders, fire commanders...

Once upon a time I was an expert in computer repair, and this fits my experience -- but in place of simulating an option mentally, I would try to simulate it physically. For example, I might replace a suspect part with one of the shop spares to test an initial hypothesis. I generated hypotheses mostly by pattern matching the symptoms and sometimes the system brand (or even the customer) to whatever was most available in my own memory.

So that's another area where RPDM gets used. I also play Chess and Go in the manner described by the last graph, although I wouldn't call myself an expert at either.