My guess is that the "if only Ellison had done X" attacks are mostly nonsense — malice mixed with Schadenfreude.
"We watch the news and think we would have done X or we would have done Y.
"By and large, the way we prove that, given the facts, the doctor should have done X or Y is through other consulting doctors".
"I'm not going to let anyone kill me knowing that we should have done x, y, z and it wasn't done," Carty says from behind bullet-proof perspex.
If it works, it works, but the notion that a play doesn't work unless you have done X, Y and Z to it simply isn't borne out by experience".
By the time X, Y and Z flip into view (X turns out to be a crossroads of migrating of birds, because "I could have done X marks the spot, but that was cutting it too easy," Ms. Cameron confided), young readers are left with a pride-inspiring impression of the state, which was what Ms. Cameron was going for.
Allen asked why she had been passed over, since she had done X, Y and Z to earn it.
At no point does he say, "I was wrong and should have done X instead of Y". There is no responsibility taken on either his part or the part of BICEP2.
Well, there's the argument that some startups are just "too early," or that they could have succeeded if they had done X instead of Y. That's coming into play here, a bit.
"It's very easy to say I would have done x, y and z but knowing that I threw 66 metres in dreadful conditions, in rain and a headwind, I think there was a lot more in me".
