To the user, the interface is the product.
Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.
Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.
Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.
You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.
Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.