"Stability creates the conditions for surprise.
The hardest failures to prevent are the ones that sound rational. In a rewrite proposal that assumes the ending is known, the decision is not crazy; it is only incomplete.
In a rewrite proposal that assumes the ending is known, everyone will focus on intent. The system only feels behavior. You see it in a shortcut that becomes the new operating mode. If you do not name the cost now, it will return later as rework, pager load, or a standard nobody can enforce. Write it for the person who inherits it later, because they will not have today’s context or today’s goodwill.
Barry Turner is a reminder to audit the argument, not the intention. Write the failure story forward while the decision is still reversible, then insist on one guardrail. Do not hide the cost in prose.