Perhaps Max
wants to take a few weeks off, but Coach Papa is not going to let him
I like the idea expressed by some of the old strongmen of having a planned week off every 6 or 12 or whatever weeks, and coming back stronger. Dan John expresses this ideas a "the rule of five" - in every five workouts, one will be a disaster, and one will be awesome, so plan for it with time off.
But I also like the idea of, if you stall in one lift, try a similar lift for a while then come back to it. I have done that a little bit with my clients, haven't had enough for long enough to really test it out, though, most are happily powering along in newbie linear progression. When I've done it, I've had them switch from back to front squat, OHP to bench, that sort of thing.
I stole this idea from Markos when I visited him, I mentioned that the S&C coach of the Aussie cycle sprint team had said that if people get a PB
or if they do worse than normal, he stops the workout, cools them down and sends them home. If I recall correctly, Markos said that since they're paying by the session he can't send them home, but he will have them do something different to normal for a break - but a productive break.