For what its worth, the verb “funge” is what kids these days are funging for phrases like “trades off against”. Some supposed benefits of this verb are that it takes one syllable rather than four, and it explicitly primes for the concept of “fungibility” in a way that highlights how often a tradeoff isn’t being made against two single things, but rather a tradeoff is being considered between some coherent proposal versus a vast array of other possible plans with similar benefits, and partial fractions and/or combinations of such plans, and so on in a vast optimization space that may contain low hanging fruit… even as considering such tradeoffs often runs afoul of sacredness heuristics.
For what its worth, the verb “funge” is what kids these days are funging for phrases like “trades off against”. Some supposed benefits of this verb are that it takes one syllable rather than four, and it explicitly primes for the concept of “fungibility” in a way that highlights how often a tradeoff isn’t being made against two single things, but rather a tradeoff is being considered between some coherent proposal versus a vast array of other possible plans with similar benefits, and partial fractions and/or combinations of such plans, and so on in a vast optimization space that may contain low hanging fruit… even as considering such tradeoffs often runs afoul of sacredness heuristics.