The entirety of the homo sapiens experience, all the strategies we have in the modern era and all the reliable tactics we use to stay ahead of other lifeforms rely on us being much better at pattern identification than literally anything else.

I disagree.

It relies on our superior communication and cooperation skills. Our 'advanced pattern recognition', which, I think any study of the sheer amount of irrational behavior done by humans will show really isn't that advanced, are a side effect of that.