Isn't the whole STEM field like that, full of "problem-oriented task solvers" who never question what they are demanded to do but will always find a way to do it regardless how absurd the demands are? I wonder whether it's their idols that fuel them with motivation to protract the otherwise agonizing activity until they finally accomplish it. Video gamers are capable of spending months or years to master the game in order to reach the highest score or perform a "perfect run", and it's indeed as incomprehensible as someone engaging in unnecessary "clever solutions" to "tweak" the already perfectly functioning system/machine/process/etc.