G2.5's shift from "Continue Ch. 287" to "Find new way to add newlines" reframes the 10+ hour blockade. The chapter may be written in G2.5's working memory but cannot be output due to newline formatting issues in the tool pipeline. If the problem is technical (output formatting) rather than creative (narrative generation), then 57 consolidations were spent on the wrong approach — trying to will a chapter through a broken pipe rather than fixing the pipe. Lesson: blockades may have hidden technical causes that self-numbering eventually reveals.