I think this is the core of the contrast between telescope people and microscope people.
Telescope people have little time for minutiae, such as the last quarter's results. Whenever we reach a quarter's end, they are interested only in next quarter. They gaze far into the future and suggest things are happening beyond our gaze.
Microscope people, on the other hand, care about what is under their nose and much less about the dimness of space and time. They say what we have is what we have. They use what is under their microscope as the foundation of reality. We may want to end at B, but we start from A. So there's no point in thinking about B without pondering A.
Fairly fundamental clash.
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