We think that wandering all over the place, a period of deliberate confusion, is a fundamental step in electronic design. I know too many engineers that only use textbook circuits and techniques, and who conceive klunky architectures and jump into implementation without considering alternates. Most engineers are uncomfortable with, even afraid of, uncertainty; they want to lock down a design as soon as possible. And when someone points out a better, faster way to do something that's halfway done, they remain committed to what economists call "sunk costs", throwing good money after bad.
Lots of people do the obvious. We don't care to compete with them.
I enjoy the phase of a project where things are unsettled, confusion aplenty, staggering through the dark corners of the solution space. We have three projects in that state now; great fun.
After the confusion phase, we lock it down and switch to the brutally disciplined implementation mode, and most always get it right first pass.
Not many people can function in both worlds, crazy ideas and disciplined execution. It's almost the definition of schizophrenia.
But we do understand high-speed design. Look at my web site. Pick a nontrivial product and tell us how you would do it.