Ouch. Sometimes the answer to “Why don’t you simply X?” is “What makes you so sure I didn’t already ‘simply X’ in the past, and maybe it just didn’t work as well as advertised?”.
It’s not necessarily that the strategy is bad, but sometimes it needs a few ingredients to make it work, such as specific skills, or luck.
Ouch. Sometimes the answer to “Why don’t you simply X?” is “What makes you so sure I didn’t already ‘simply X’ in the past, and maybe it just didn’t work as well as advertised?”.
It’s not necessarily that the strategy is bad, but sometimes it needs a few ingredients to make it work, such as specific skills, or luck.