Your model is outsourced labor, moving from micromanagement to co-worker.
My model is a genius intern, who needs tools to exceed me in some areas and lean on me in others.
The authors model is wielding a hammer and moving to a press.
The diversity is shaped by a dozen factors - we solve different problems or even types of problems, under different constraints, amount of time invested so far, past experience and so on.
We’re not taking face to face, so forgive me if I guess wrongly… I guess your frustration comes from trying to coax wide variety of behaviors into a single framework. I’d given up on that, so I just try to pay attention. To results people achieve to reset my expectations of what is possible. Naturally I’m heavily biased by my mental model, and it has to be that way or else I will go insane.