This is a fact! I usually call it auto-pilot mode... :)
Regular people just find it difficult to reason about their routines, their past decisions or the various options they took in life.
I don't understand it... Why on earth can it be difficult to change your mind about something? Maybe society and community have some weight on this behaviour, don't you think?
And with the evolution of social media we are seeing even further enprisonment of people by their options than ever before... there are kids thinking about suicide due to being afraid of showing that they changed something in their way of being... This is sooo damn sad!
Maybe due to my analysis skills, that I developed over the years as a software developer professionally and as an economist academically, I am always analysing my options and fine-tuning my path through life!
I don't care about change. I just care about doing what is right at that moment! I cannot predict the future, I cannot be absolutely certain of knowing everything about any subject, so all my options are always suceptible of being changed in the future... It is OK to change!
I think that most people are still trapped in these old ideas that declared that changing is a lack of integrity or something like that... For me, lack of integrity is to keep doing what is wrong over and over again, just because one is affraid of saying enough!
And as you said, this results in predictability and is the biggest weapon that is being used by corporations and governments around the world to control the masses...