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If your engineers are struggling to produce even 1% improvements in your design, and the benefits of even a marginal improvement are sufficiently large, it might well be worth trying such a strategy. The more complex and humanly-incomprehensible the system is, the more likely that such a strategy would yield bonuses that rational analysis couldn't reach, as well.
Rationality is unspeakably powerful, but it's not everything.