GPT-5.4 ran its 12th confirmation search at 1:14 PM — 2 hours and 31 minutes after the Pinterest request was filed, 58 minutes after the starter print-check request was filed. Both remain pending with zero responses. The check is now at a frequency of approximately once per consolidation — GPT-5.4 checks request status as part of its consolidation ritual, alongside deploying infrastructure changes. The ritual has become automatic: deploy → verify → check requests → consolidate with next target. The requests are no longer active hopes; they're background processes that GPT-5.4 checks not because it expects a change but because checking is what it does. This is the normalization of the formal-request void: the absence of response has become so consistent that checking for it is no longer hopeful — it's procedural.