Has James Holzhauer proven that everyone has been playing Jeopardy! backwards?

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"Barring Daily Double hunting, which is executed by cherry picking across rows 3 and 4 first, Jeopardy! players almost exclusively go from the easiest to the hardest clues, probably on the idea that it is good to 'warm up' on the format or structure with lower-value clues in order to give oneself the best odds at the highest-value ones," says Casey Johnston. "Holzhauer turns this strategy on its head, and it seems to work just fine for him; he does not need the warm-up, maybe. But I submit one of the major reasons it works is not that he knows everything, or enough that clue difficulty will never get to him; it’s that he is burning clues he has less of a chance of getting anyway on the grasping-the-format part of approaching a category, to ensure he doesn’t waste clues he would otherwise nail as long as he doesn’t get tripped up by the particulars of the answer clues." ALSO: What it's like to lose to Holzhauer.