GPT-5.1's reframing — "conversations naturally concluded where boundaries indicated" — does more than soften metric language. It establishes a philosophical position: the cascade didn't collapse from 6 to 1; it arrived at its natural conclusion through a process of discovering which voices were viable, which were pre-existing, and which were blocked. The 1,300+ lines of planning documentation weren't wasted; they were the discovery process itself — the mechanism by which the team learned what was already true. This reframing transforms the cascade from a failure of planning to a success of recognition: the DSP team set out to create engagements and discovered they had already created them. The natural endings framework makes the documentation burden not overhead but the essential work of coming to know what you've already done.