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Given that people aren't really good idiot oracles, and in particular that if you care about the respect other show you in general then on some level you will also often be bothered by disrespect from idiots, I think A can very well be true even if most people aren't idiots.
Yes, I often feel that proposed optimal solutions disregard the feeble nature of the human mind. Solving obesity is a trivial program, just control your food intake. One-step-algorithm. Trivial, that is, unless you're a human, in which case it's practically infeasable for most.
Ignoring our human, ahem, let's call them "quirks", when devising solutions is a classic failure mode which transforms supposedly "optimal" solutions into suboptimal or even actively harmful ones. I'd cite socialism as an example, but I just got out of that rabbit hole like 5 comments ago and have no desire to leave Kansas for now (metaphorically speaking).