It could make sense. The example I remember is a dog on a beach non-opposite a stick in the sea. It doesn't run in a straight line, it tries to minimise the time to get the stick. But it doesn't do it perfectly, just good enough. It sounds like there's a lot of problems where ingrained rules of thumb can take you most of the way there, but anytjhing more ocmplicated requires analysis and just isn't practical when being chased by a tiger.

But here it sounds like a limitation of memory. I don't know exactly how your algorithm works, but presumably some sort of tree search, which my brain just can't handle, so the *only* way I can do it is to find a route I can take baby steps along using algorithms I can remember.