BACK TO BASICS

I been told oh so many times that you don't have to get "Back to Basics" if you never gave up their implementation in the first place. In other words, you don't have to "get back" to anything you never left to begin with. It has always seemed like a simple directive and one easily followed but life, or just old habits, intervene to move me away towards more complex behaviors. Put another way, I tend to fuck up every now and then.
Why is that? Why do we not just continue to use what works for us instead of mindlessly (and sometimes with great forethought) experimenting with a winning formula. If you're waiting for an answer you're going to be waiting a long time. I decided to only ask questions tonight. You know, keep things in the interrogative?
B'de, b'de, b'that's all folks!