The Wordlebot can also analyze and choose from the hundreds of words in its dictionary in tenths of a second. We humans aren’t playing the same game as the Wordlebot so I don’t use the same strategies as the Wordlebot.
Back to the old PLATE vs STALE argument. I think it is more beneficial to determine if S is part of the solution than P because I can’t instantly process hundreds of solutions after every guess and know how many words I’ve eliminated.