To support my case, I made a spreadsheet of all the major issues EV had run into that I was aware of and whether having non-EA experts helped.
Were these mostly situations in which EV had run into a major issue and then an outside expert was brought in? To the extent that the underlying developments that led to an issue came about from an EA / EV-insider way of thinking, I would expect significant performance costs associated with changing horses in midstream. So I wouldn’t update much on the advisability of bringing in outside experts before a problem happens, or after a problem happens if the outside experts had played a role in setting up the underlying developments.
As a rough analogy, one can imagine a gridiron football offense that has been built (in terms of training, personnel, etc.) to align with a particular offensive strategy (e.g., the West Coast offense). If your team is set up that way, subbing in a key player whose skill set doesn’t align to the previously chosen offensive strategy isn’t usually going to work well in the short to medium run. This doesn’t imply that the new player is bad—just that your team has pre-committed to playing a particular offense. Ex ante, the new guy could have been the right player for your team contingent on your team having built a flexible enough system for him to work effectively in.
Were these mostly situations in which EV had run into a major issue and then an outside expert was brought in? To the extent that the underlying developments that led to an issue came about from an EA / EV-insider way of thinking, I would expect significant performance costs associated with changing horses in midstream. So I wouldn’t update much on the advisability of bringing in outside experts before a problem happens, or after a problem happens if the outside experts had played a role in setting up the underlying developments.
As a rough analogy, one can imagine a gridiron football offense that has been built (in terms of training, personnel, etc.) to align with a particular offensive strategy (e.g., the West Coast offense). If your team is set up that way, subbing in a key player whose skill set doesn’t align to the previously chosen offensive strategy isn’t usually going to work well in the short to medium run. This doesn’t imply that the new player is bad—just that your team has pre-committed to playing a particular offense. Ex ante, the new guy could have been the right player for your team contingent on your team having built a flexible enough system for him to work effectively in.