> it's not "this ought to work", it's "here are the figures showing how well this works, on this dataset"

The thing with constraints is that you focus of the thing with high value first. So you focus on the most promising ideas first or choose experiments that can get rid of most ideas. Instead of trying to validate each ideas and generate what is most likely noise to the decision process.

Like if I ever hire an assistant, I want like one to three options that are closely aligned to my needs, not a bible size report on 42 choices.