The cultural premium on nuanced thinking has produced a generation of people who can see every side of every question and act on none of them. Nuance, performed rather than applied, is paralysis with intellectual credentials.
Carefully examining your reasons for a decision reliably makes those decisions worse. The assumption that more self-reflection leads to better choices is one of the most empirically challenged pieces of folk wisdom in circulation.
Talking about a problem feels like working on it. Often it isn't. Conversation is optimized for social bonding, not problem-solving—and confusing the two keeps people stuck in the same place for months while feeling productively engaged.