It's easy to think you're 10 steps ahead of everyone else, but actually you're 10 steps behind.

In that case, you might think you're a bold genius, but actually you're an immature baby.

Imagine everyone else proposing the obvious best practice and the upstart saying "that sounds trite and boring, that can't possibly be it!".

The response is: "The reason it sounds trite is because it works resiliently in diverse situations so everyone knows it's good advice and no one ever feels the need to question it".

Every so often, the general consensus baseline is wrong, and tweaking it will give an asymmetric advantage.

But far, far more often, the received wisdom is so boring precisely because it works so well in so many situations.