I don't have anything particularly insightful to add, but perhaps search the archives of /r/AcademicBiblical and /r/AskBibleScholars for some perspectives (or submit the question).

There is an interesting lecture series by Donald Knuth on this topic which I've listened to multiple times. It's described here [0], but I can't find the recordings. It appears a condensed version was given at Google 10 years later [1]

[0] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mit-lectures.html [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpk-1btGZk