I think we might be valuing the importance of each step based on personal experience. But maybe they're both equally important. ex. What's more important for a cake, buying the ingredients or cooking it?
How can one improve the "mating dance" ?
What is your point?
Of course you will have to go through the rest of process, but you just solved the most critical step.
I believe, the fact that they might not want to know the outcomes, due to potentially complex legal procedures the effort they would have to exert to protect users better doesn't make it hard, it makes the companies selfish.
Looking the other way and claiming ignorance because you don't want to deal with the legal implications of your product potentially causing harm is really horrible.
EDIT: Happy to hear the disagreements here.
I think it might also depend on your goals. Like how fast you want to learn something. If you have less than ideal time, then maybe more structured learning is necessary. If you have more time then periods of structureless/passive learning could be beneficial.