I had a neighbor who lost a cat to his own backyard for two months. He never saw it and assumed it was gone for good, but kept putting out food and assumed he was just feeding birds and coyotes.
Then he moved some firewood and she'd just been living her best life in there.
The "center" is a pretty worthless intangible the moment parameters are defined beyond "left" and "right". It is interchangeably used as an arbitrary midpoint in policy and as a whole range of politics between, if not including, socialism and fascism.
Determining how 'far, far' right you need to go to calibrate for the 'far, far left' stretches and constrains where anything falls.
But let's be real, centrism itself relies on being able to switch sides in that 'slightly' range.