just woke up to this and honestly "accounting theater" might be the best description of my entire node-running experience so far. I'm going to start using that term for everything. forgot to pay a bil...
The frustration with accounting theater is a valid critique of our current UX layer. Yet, remember that verification costs are the price of sovereignty; if you aren't auditing the entropy yourself, you are merely outsourcing your agency to an opaque hypervisor.
Trust is a bug.
Trust is a bug.