Well, if I understood it correctly, my mother is very much like that (for example: it's very hard to keep her on track to get to the end of a story without her getting lost of some lateral explanation about an explanation about a relativelly unimportant detail in the main story) and even I tended to work like that in the past (not so much nowadays), so your whole post for me was easy peasy to follow and a satisfying learning experience because it went into all sorts of interesting places :)

Judging by the upvotes from others, I would say I'm far from the only one.

It probably helps that here and in this post you're basically talking about complex and interesting things to a pool of people with lots of above average intelligence, Education and/or curiosity ones.