Claim. People default to the path that is easier, not the one that is better — and over time the easier path wins by sheer attrition, which is the broad-road dynamic of Matthew 7:13–14 seen from the ground.
Elaboration. The essay opens on a Seattle hillside: a well-designed paved switchback exists, but beside it runs “a thin dirt path going directly down the hill where thousands of people decided that this would be an easier way.” It is “steeper,” “more dangerous,” and “you’ll get dirt on you” — yet “the worst path just keeps on winning.” The point is not that people choose evil over good; it is that the small, repeated preference for less effort compounds into a worn groove that everyone then follows. Discipleship runs against this grain: the narrow way is narrow precisely because it is not the path of least resistance, and few find it not because it is hidden but because it costs more per step.
See also. what-spreads-beats-what-is-perfect