This thread began well years ago and devolved.

From my pov, ESXps can look stubborn and defend their take on something with surprising bristly force (more often Delta), or they can seem stuck, able maybe to acknowledge logic but not to act on that awareness (more often Gamma).

It looks like an inability to shift frames of reference. Instead of a shift or reframing, it looks like Ti polr carves out a path and/or accumulates knowledge bit by bit, and the change in mindset occurs almost imperceptibly (to me), and that way there is never any need for the ESXp to lose face.