A system you can count on beats a lucky flash of genius — every time.
Magic is the exciting shortcut that gets the credit; structure is the plain system that does the work. Shortcuts pay off once and fail you twice; a system pays off on a Tuesday when inspiration doesn't show. Boring is what still works next year.
Shortcuts aren't stupid — they're seductive, which is worse. They work often enough to feel like skill, and the times they fail get attributed to bad luck rather than to the method. So the lesson never lands and the shortcut survives.
A system's virtue is that it's indifferent to your state. It doesn't need you rested, motivated or inspired; it produces the same result on the day you have nothing. That's not a small claim — most of what you'll ever produce will be made on ordinary days.
Which is why boring is a compliment here. The dull, repeatable move that still works next year beats the brilliant one that needed conditions you can't reproduce.