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I came to understand it as "optimizing well past the point of diminishing returns".

I've understood it as obsessive optimization to the point that it's a mental health problem. Case in point, looksmaxxing.

Ever since it's breached the mainstream, I think you can just append it to anything to make things sound funnier. It has mostly lost its meaning.

"I'm breakfastmaxxing. I'm a cerealpilled bowlcel in my milk era. I'm a slicemoded breadchad." etc.

"cerealpilled bowlcel" send me to another dimension.