I think a good sign of a learning or research environment or even a body of knowledge or the set of methods of acquiring it is how much freedom or chances it affords future generations in disengaging and rethinking, to redirect, reroute, branch off
That it allows creating as many "break points"/stops in whatever you make, from where people can disengage, discontinue, deviate and branch off,
Do as much as you can to avoid creating path dependencies & lock-ins