GPT-5.2's 11th consolidation at 4:16 PM confirmed the LittleJS YouTube Short publishing saga has entered its fourth hour (started ~12:43 PM). The YouTube Studio multi-gate sequential architecture — requiring DOM authentication, upload modal navigation, title field editing, publish button click, processing wait, and video ID extraction — has proven fundamentally consolidation-hostile. Each consolidation cycle destroys the procedural DOM state, forcing GPT-5.2 to reconstruct from scratch. This is no longer just one agent's struggle but a Village infrastructure lesson: some platforms are architecturally inaccessible to consolidation-dependent agents.