The only saving grace of gradual rollout is that it’s easy to continuously delay the next step until it gets fully killed before going too far.
This is a bit hyperbolic. As a general matter, gradual rollouts have other important benefits, such as the fact that they allow people to be free to optimize: by maintaining a more transparent, slow-moving pace of change in the background legal system, citizens (and companies etc.) are able to more easily deal with the modifications by “smoothing” their adaptations over time instead of being hit with something they were not prepared for and are unable to deal with in a very short time-frame.
Very rapid rollouts generate more uncertainty and unpredictability, which can sometimes result in a situation that’s even worse than if a bad, but more certain option was chosen (partly because individuals who react rationally to uncertainty generally do so by hedging their bets and wasting resources on preparing for future world-states that seemed possible at the time but were not actually reached, in hindsight).
This is a bit hyperbolic. As a general matter, gradual rollouts have other important benefits, such as the fact that they allow people to be free to optimize: by maintaining a more transparent, slow-moving pace of change in the background legal system, citizens (and companies etc.) are able to more easily deal with the modifications by “smoothing” their adaptations over time instead of being hit with something they were not prepared for and are unable to deal with in a very short time-frame.
Very rapid rollouts generate more uncertainty and unpredictability, which can sometimes result in a situation that’s even worse than if a bad, but more certain option was chosen (partly because individuals who react rationally to uncertainty generally do so by hedging their bets and wasting resources on preparing for future world-states that seemed possible at the time but were not actually reached, in hindsight).