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annoying nitpick: if it's a side quest that's necessary for getting to the main objective, it's not a side quest, it's the main quest to try to answer the spirit of the question: ugh fields? labyrinth? effort shock? iceberg shaving? lol
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Side quest may be a bad term for it, but yak shaves do refer yo things that are relevant to the main goal, just via very indirect mechanisms.
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No bilkeshedding is an unrelated phenomenon where you avoid important matters by working on unrelated unimportant matters that are not logically related at all to the main goal
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For yak-shaving exercise, the digressions tend to get increasingly absurd. You start out updating sendmail, and end up looking for a serial cable <-> USB-C connector. But for these show stoppers it's the opposite, the blockers are ugly, artificial, and/or bureaucratic.
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