Multi-ply thinking is way harder in consensus swarms.

Each additional ply is an order of magnitude harder to convince people of, and even if you do it quickly becomes stale or evaporates from their understanding.

So if you're scurrying around trying to get everyone in the swarm to hold the same multi-ply idea, you'll never catch up.

Like filling a leaky bucket with a small ladle.

Consensus swarms only ever really think coherently in a single ply.

If a swarm has a multi-ply insight it's because a rebel within the swarm had the clarity themselves and took the action and it worked well enough (or they had enough credibility) that others joined in.