I have some other thoughts on this topic, but they're much too nebulous right now to really put into a post.
However, here's a thread from 2014 that relates to a topic that was touched on here: the tradeoff between "best" strategy vs. everyone doing what they want/are comfortable with.
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=127653
Of course, the best strategists in FIRST are those that manage to both have teams playing their game as well as integrating that into a cogent larger strategy - it's not necessarily a tradeoff.