The reality looks more like the worst of both worlds to me.

If you genuinely needed only a handful of "surgical strikes", thete would be no need to "compress the kill cycle".

What we see in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran looks more like "smart carpet bombing": Some AI system generates a continuous stream of "targets" from sensor and intelligence data, according to whatever criteria political leadership defines and according to a given level of allowed "collateral damage", then those targets are immediately fed to drones or warplanes to destroy - essentially a continuous "pipeline" that probably "ideally" (in the dreams of those people) should become fully automated.

For THAT kind of vision, "efficiency" in destroying any particular target and checking all legally required boxes as quickly as possible is probably paramount.

(And in addition to that, there are probably still enough "dumb bombs" if no one is looking)