Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy urban planners (2018)

This is why I want to design and develop software _lazily_, as a kind of perpetual wizard of oz experiment. I'm laying the foundations now, for a 'magic' software experience that learns to become whatever you need, lazily, driven behind the curtain by operators and agents, AI and human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment

Desire paths fascinated me. I've seen several grow, and I've seen the reasonably understandable, but ultimately fruitless attempts to inhibit them: Why don't landscape architects and planners actually welcome them (like one does in this article) instead of confronting them?