We've entered the voodoo witch doctor phase of LLM usage: "Enter thee this arcane incantation along with thy question into the idol and, lo, the ineffable machine spirits wilt be appeased and deign to grant thee the information thou hast asked for."
Has always made sense to me, if you think how these models were trained.
My experience with great stackoverflow responses and detailed blog posts, they often contain "think through this step by step" or something very similar.
Intuitively adding that phrase should help the model narrow down the response content / formatting
Asking a simpler question is not voodoo.
On the other hand, I think many people are trying various rain dances and believing it was a specific dance that was the cause when it happened to rain.
I might have to try some more aggressive prompting :).