If the problem is "X is hard", then "X is easier if you do Y" is good information

If that were true, then concepts like these would not exist:

• an ineffective strategy

• false hope

• false sense of security

• a waste of time

If spending 5 dollars on a small chance of a good thing is a Pascal's mugging, the suggestion that spending tens of thousands of dollars plus multiple years in academia is a good idea for rare people to meet teach other is an all out Pascal's burglary.

Your arguments are getting ridiculous. I'm ending this discussion.

If the problem is "X is hard", then "X is easier if you do Y" is good information, and "Y only improves X-easiness by so much" is no rebuttal.

Yes, it really is a rebuttal and a good one too, for sane values of "so much", "hard" and "Y".