But if the whole weight of the bottom run is flat/supported it should not matter that much.

I see your point though, they shouldn’t have done it.

I have never seen anyone put the cleat in the middle of the bottom step run.

I don’t see a reason why it would be bad though

Very nice stairs

Solving a game means that the way to win/draw it is 100% known

Checkers is weakly solved because if the first person makes a certain move and no matter what the other player does the player going first knows the next move to draw.

Tic-tac-toe is a completely solved game. If you go first and put it in the middle the second player has to go into a corner or lose. If they put it in a corner then the first player goes in a corner and it’s a draw.

Chess could be weakly solved even though there are so many combinations of possible moves.

Like say like a weird strategy existed where black cannot stop white from simply marching all their pawns to the other side of the board with protection and eventually smothers the king.

If just one unstoppable line in chess existed it would be weakly solved