What local maxima are you seeing? That would imply that progress has stalled, which doesn't appear to be the case where I'm looking.

Also, RSI is obviously guided. If only guided by "it's not giving results so we'll try something else". To require that RSI happens in a black box for it to count would be arbitrary, and also not how anyone is going to do it.

> RSI is obviously

There is no publicly known reference example of RSI, we have no idea how it works or what it does to the trajectory of progress?