That's exactly what Wernher von Braun did with his early rocket designs. He (intelligently and quickly) iterated, keeping the parts that worked and getting rid of the parts that didn't.
Yeah, actually trying to be a smart rocket scientist can be seen as an euristic to make the stochastic process of finding a working rocket design converge faster.
That's exactly what Wernher von Braun did with his early rocket designs. He (intelligently and quickly) iterated, keeping the parts that worked and getting rid of the parts that didn't.