I’m sure planning and learning help – no doubt about it, but could you say you can plan the next movement of Google? Or predict with 100% accuracy the next country where online gambling will be banned?
Your right you cannot plan googles next algorithm change and as we have seen before you can be ranked #1 one day and nowhere to be found the next. But if you dont rely on just google alone for all your income then you wont be completely wiped out when it happens. You already know its a high possibility that it can happen again so why not prepare for it?
Same thing for the countries being banned. If all your marketing is targeted at one country and they get a gambling ban then of course your going to get wiped out.
I agree that there are many risks involved in this business but if you take the appropriate steps to minimize these risks then you should be ok. But then who knows maybe the US government will ban the internet next and I will get wiped out.