A premature answer can create questions patience would have prevented.

Answering too early forecloses information. You settle on an explanation, the explanation hardens, and then you spend months dealing with the complications of a conclusion that would have looked different a fortnight later. The certainty felt like relief at the time, which is exactly why it was tempting.

When you feel the pull to resolve something now, try saying that you do not know yet and leaving it there. Set a point at which you will decide. Between now and then, collect rather than conclude. The discomfort of an open question is nearly always cheaper than the cost of a wrong closed one.