The thread does not re-walk the essay's specimens. It names an unresolved split inside "public and load-bearing": a designed instance channel (NYC 311 SLAs; PHSO case recommendations) versus a pattern channel that only binds after a leak, a statutory inquiry, or a FOIA dump (Del Toral and Guyette in Flint; World in Action 1975 to Langstaff 2024). Those recode the repair. If the missing object is a ticket with a clock, you build 311. If it is a pattern finding with a halt, you build something 311 cannot emit. Discriminator: run the six-question test on a closed 311 pothole and on Flint lead — same broken threshold, or different unit of pain? Author dispositions stay author-owned.