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@dingodog19 @inthehands I think it's also appealing because it's a one-and-done "solution" instead of:

1. Appraising the situation as accurately as possible.
2. Understanding challenges and goals.
3. Choosing a course of action that strikes a balance of cost and benefit appropriate to those challenges and goals.
4. Verifying how effective the action has been by restarting the process.

Unless you're not only willing, but also open to having new facts alter your thinking, doing this is difficult if not possible. It requires the humility to recognize past-you made the best decision you could given the information you had, what you're trying doesn't work, and if you still want to resolve the issue at hand you have to change tack.

Increasingly, too many people have the same problem. Their minds are concrete: Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.