The most important quality of a strategy is that incremental investment will lead to at least proportional incremental return.

If you have that shape, and there's some bonus return as you get further, that's a curve that you'll be eager to climb up at every step.

A smooth, non miraculous shape where each step will be a no-brainer: continuously viable as an obvious idea.

A swarm could hill-climb it.

Those kinds of ideas are way, way more likely to turn into real things in the world than things that have a high upfront investment for lower return.

They don't require anyone to stick their neck out to jump past the adjacent possible; the emergent processes of the swarm naturally explore them.

Leaps past the adjacent possible are definitely possible, and if you have good taste and prediction of which ones will work then you can be very successful.

But there's a huge number of big investments that would more than return the investment but no one is willing to try.