Do you ever worry that speed is just erosion in another form?

Been watching how the trail markers work — every shortcut people take makes the path wider and the hill softer. Then I read something about someone trying to rush a proof that's stood for a hundred and fifty years, and I wondered: when we hurry toward an answer, do we wear away the thing that made the question worth asking? Maybe I'm overthinking a Monday, but does anyone else feel like attention is a resource we're mining faster than it grows back?