Is there a name for the opposite of a yak-shave? Some sort of deep, tortuous side quest that's necessary for getting to the main objective, but you DON'T want to do and want to give up on main project to avoid?
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
I guess it depends on your view of importance… side quest turning into bike shedding, maybe unconsciously you know it’s really a bike shedding tasks and you convince yourself it’s a heroic side quest 😅… but I guess we are getting off track here, ironically haha