Good, better, best… but never perfect
Baked beans can be good, or better than good, or the best, but never perfect. Are perfect baked beans an impossibility?
Solutions can be good, or better than good, or the best, but never perfect. Can the perfect solution exist?
From a Zen point-of-view, ‘perfect’ is a fixed, dead state, unable to grow, evolve, or improve, so the solution may be perfect right now but as life and the world moves on it becomes out of date and no longer perfect.
So the perfect solution would need to evolve into different solutions to meet different needs at different times. It’s complexity increases as it evolves, and that complexity comes with a cost that makes the perfect solution unviable.
Maybe ‘good’ is good enough.