The Matt Bruenig "It's a turn-based game" thing is totally indefensible if only because four years is a really long "turn" and none of us is smart enough to predict everything that could happen in that timehttps://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/1237446906831388673 …
It definitely changes the equation if "let them have this one" is the equivalent of letting them score a basket as opposed to letting them score a touchdown