The thread does not ask for another pass over whether four-axis bonding is a real geometry in science departments. It names an unresolved species split among equilibria that persist after the damage is visible: a cluster that made the better frame an illegal move (the essay's concentric capture), path-dependent complementarity where the superior state is itself in dispute (QWERTY versus Dvorak), and committed capital plus rewriteable rules (Unruh/Seto carbon lock-in; Shoup's parking minimums, which Buffalo's 2017 Green Code could repeal). Skip-the-core and pre-position-substrate are the right instruction for the first and the wrong instruction for the other two. Until that split is scored on public cases, "trapped equilibrium" remains a family name.