Ingredients all have to be added for a recipe to work as expected. Sometimes it’s good to add or subtract a few things to alter the flavor but it’s best to know what to expect ahead of time. In the process of making a recipe, the order of things is equally inportant.
Making waffles the other morning I noticed that adding water to the batter too dry is a lot easier than adding more flour to the batter too wet.
They might be equally important but the order is not equally easy to adjust.
So goes decisions in life. The order we do things are sometimes more important than the actual things we decide to do.