Most of the time shortcuts turn out to be detours.
Detours that need all of your attention, time, energy and resources to get back to where you initially wanted to go.
And once you're back on track you don't have the attention, time, energy and resources anymore that you need to get to where you initially set out to go and do the things you wanted to do.
Most of the time the things that look like a shortcut turn out to be detours.
And the things that looked like a detour at first turn out to be the real shortcuts...