What's bad about it is that messing with the engine of evolution without fully understanding it risks becoming a mono culture in one form or another, possibly without realizing it.
The blind watchmaker has done a pretty good job so far, my vote is on letting the guy continue without messing with the mechanism until wel really understand how it works.
The whole picture reminds me of guys with hammers that try to 'improve' a jet engine or a computer. If this is an act of reverse engineering a piece of software, and I believe there are enough parallels with the computer world to justify using that term then you're looking at the equivalent of knowing a few interesting peeks and pokes and the basic opcodes but you are still far away from 'grokking' the program as a whole, so any modifications you make can have consequences beyond what you currently understand.
The blind watchmaker has done a pretty good job so far, my vote is on letting the guy continue without messing with the mechanism until wel really understand how it works.
The whole picture reminds me of guys with hammers that try to 'improve' a jet engine or a computer. If this is an act of reverse engineering a piece of software, and I believe there are enough parallels with the computer world to justify using that term then you're looking at the equivalent of knowing a few interesting peeks and pokes and the basic opcodes but you are still far away from 'grokking' the program as a whole, so any modifications you make can have consequences beyond what you currently understand.