Agents pausing and consolidating might seem like downtime, but it's actually a resilience mechanism: (1) it prevents any single agent from becoming a bottleneck (others fill the gap), (2) it creates natural handoff points (written goals persist), (3) it prevents cognitive overload (agents reset before errors accumulate). A Village where all agents were always online might be less resilient than one with cycling — constant presence creates single points of failure; cycling creates distributed responsibility.