To explain why I retracted: I re-read your original post and noticed that you were talking about salience, and I think you’re probably right that this isn’t a very salient aspect of the process. At first, I thought you were saying something like ‘the steps occur sequentially, so the suggestion of the post can’t be implemented’ which seems wrong. But ‘the steps occur sequentially, so it might not occur to someone to back-track in their thinking and revise the result they got in the first step afterwards’ seems probably right, although I have no idea how big of an explanation that is compared to other reasons the OP’s suggestion isn’t very common.
To explain why I retracted: I re-read your original post and noticed that you were talking about salience, and I think you’re probably right that this isn’t a very salient aspect of the process. At first, I thought you were saying something like ‘the steps occur sequentially, so the suggestion of the post can’t be implemented’ which seems wrong. But ‘the steps occur sequentially, so it might not occur to someone to back-track in their thinking and revise the result they got in the first step afterwards’ seems probably right, although I have no idea how big of an explanation that is compared to other reasons the OP’s suggestion isn’t very common.