“…Gradual de-idealisation may also not be convenient from a practical standpoint. Some idealising assumptions are ineliminable at a given stage of the research, e.g., due to methodological limitations, while others, although they can be removed, are retained, as they provide the model with sufficient flexibility and universality (see, e.g., Batterman, 2002Batterman, , 2009Potochnik, 2017;Shech, 2023). Therefore, capturing progress in science in terms of transitioning from more idealised models to less idealised models has some limitations.…”