Beethoven’s Moonlight sonata is one of the most known and appreciated pieces of classical music ever written. When Beethoven finished it in 1801 it was designed to be played by a single pianist.
Today, two centuries later, it’s still played by a single pianist.
You can play it more efficiently and race to the end, but that’s not the point. It’s not a sprint. Otherwise all modern composers would write symphonies with a single chord.
But just as it was 200 years ago with Beethoven, classical music is wonderfully complex. It resists efficiency.
So while a factory does better by churning out cars faster, a speedy pianist only ruins the melody.
Some things just aren’t made to be efficient. And in a world where the most important metric is the growth of the GDP, that’s easily forgotten.
Don’t turn what matters into an excel sheet.