Poor choice of words on my part. In my example one is going "off course" in the sense that one is spending more time on the yak shaving than is justified by the scope of the problem being solved (e.g. let's say refactoring a script that is only run once, and spending more time on the refactoring than if one had manually replicated the script's output). Maybe "too deep in the rabbit hole" would be a more illustrative phrase.
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