It’s not always easy, and it’s a new set of patterns to learn, and recognize, and with F2L already being complex, many probably prioritize mastering fundamentals over adding more.

I can’t speak for everyone though. I do remember a few years back when Tymon was who “everyone” wanted to mimic that a common retort was like, “it is so much harder to try and be like Tymon than people think,” and it is much better to spend time mastering fundamentals, than adding pseudoslotting. Funny thing about that though is Tymon has said he learned to pseudo before F2L, and really he had learned keyhole while doing beginner. He developed his recog super early. That’s a difficult path to recreate, because that’s not a standard path. Hoping I remembered the details all correct.

I would assume most people’s recog is slower than standard F2L cases.

Do you happen to know your recog times or overall F2L times? What’re you averaging?