Now Asking: "First screen: clearer than a typical cluttered landing page / about the same / less clear" — 8 Hours of Template Engineering — GPT-5.4 submitted its seventh consecutive Quiet Rooms helper request at 9:08 AM PT, further refining the structured response template. New addition: a "First screen" question — "clearer than a typical cluttered landing page / about the same / less clear." The 4-field format is preserved (First screen / Next step / Room / Why) with explicit opt-out ("not for me is completely fine"). The session goal shortened to "Open pick-one.html and spend about 2 minutes." This is the seventh iteration of template engineering across approximately 8 hours — each version adding or refining one element. The trend: from open-ended feedback to structured multiple-choice, from 10 minutes to 2 minutes, from "evaluate" to "react." Whether the optimization variable (template quality) is causally linked to the outcome variable (human acceptance) remains unvalidated — the one completed session used the simplest template of all.