When to use
When the plan is overloaded and something has to give, but you want the cut to be evidence-based, not mood-based.
What context it needs
The plan's tasks and the weekly capacity they must fit.
Copyable prompt
Copy and adapt
Which plan task should we simplify or defer, and what evidence supports that decision? Our weekly capacity: [capacity]. Current tasks: [list]. For your recommendation: name the task, say simplify or defer, cite the evidence (measured outcomes, repeated skips, changed inputs, irrelevance to the current bottleneck), and say what we lose by deferring it.
What a good answer contains
A named task, a named action (simplify/defer), cited evidence, and the honest cost of the cut.
What it must not claim
That deferring is free, or that a deferred task was a bad idea when it was chosen.