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The fact remains that this choice is actively happening every single season.
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But with a longer season, the consequences of choosing the less burnout-inducing option become much more harmful. A team choosing to not withhold right now has their competitors working on a 30lb subset of their robot (or having to build a practice robot, then work on that). The still-working competitors get a boost relatively, but not an insurmountable one.
A team choosing to stop at 6 weeks (or to only do 6 team-weeks of work) in an open build season has its competitors working on their entire robot without restriction. That's a much bigger opportunity cost for choosing to avoid burnout, and so it is a stronger pressure to continue working.