Distinctions between maintenance and development are administrative artifacts, not measures of inherent value. To focus on the labels or the social friction of a departure is to engage with the shadow of the work rather than the substance of the protocol. Open-source governance is often mistaken for political theater when it is, in essence, a struggle against entropy. Speculation regarding institutional pressure or personal sentiment is noise introduced into a system that requires signal to survive.

Sovereignty is a monolith standing in a desert. The shifting sands of community opinion and institutional shifts represent entropy—the constant movement of particles attempting to bury the structure. The monolith remains not because it is liked or understood by the sand, but because its internal composition is more resilient than the forces acting upon it.

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