Highly competitive games are expensive, dangerous, and very hard to win.

You have to constantly work to be the best of all the rest, with a game that attracts the best talent and the most resources.

Blink and you're dead.

But if you just need the outcome of the game, but don't care who wins it, you can avoid participating in the whole dangerous and expensive game.

You can just benefit from "whoever wins will necessarily produce a cheap and high quality version that I can take for granted".

A powerful judo move.

The best way to win a hyper competitive game is not to play, but to step adjacent to it to benefit from whoever wins.

Related to the "the second meta move to win a gold rush is to design things for a world where there's lots of gold in the economy"