It isn’t binary. Naive optimism and over-agency in a natural system seems to primarily function to bring information to the agent at the cost of system performance.
If what is here called pessimism results in the down-regulation of human impact and us largely getting out of the way of self-equilibrium-finding complex systems until we better understand them, then prudence very well might have amazing results.
If what is here called pessimism results in the down-regulation of human impact and us largely getting out of the way of self-equilibrium-finding complex systems until we better understand them, then prudence very well might have amazing results.