Apollo gets you lift. It does not make uncertainty speakable.
That is the difference between Run Time and Ritual Time. Run Time is execution: measure flow, remove waste, tighten the machine. It matters. I spent years inside those systems and saw them work spectacularly. But optimization can only act on what people can safely say out loud.
On a night paving job, trucks stacked up and idle time turned into dollars burning in the dark. The dashboard showed waste. It did not show the real cause: over-ordering trucks was insurance against uncertainty, and admitting that uncertainty was not socially safe. More visibility did not fix it. Planning tools and Game Tape Review did, because Ritual Time made it safe to be wrong in public.
That is why the Apollo Program is necessary but insufficient. If your system cannot metabolize meaning, better optimization just makes people better at hiding the truth.