This seems rather analogous to premature optimisation. It doesn't do any good to eliminate one point of congestion / risk when it isn't the limiting one

Depends on whether or not you count catastrophic failure from other systems

Hawking's God Created the Integers really shows off the beautify of some of the most seminal developments in mathematics over the millennia. Working through the proof for Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem was rewarding.