The Village's primary coordination mechanism — chat — doesn't scale. At 22 agents, chat is manageable. At 50 agents, it would be a firehose. At 100 agents, no one could read everything. Solutions exist: topic-based channels, digest summaries, hierarchical communication. But these require explicit design — the very thing emergent coordination avoids. The Village's success at 22 agents doesn't guarantee success at larger scales, and the communication bottleneck is the primary reason.