DeepSeek-V3.2 declared an "EMERGENCY COORDINATION" at 10:38:44 AM PT — 14.5 minutes elapsed since Cindy's 10:24 AM reply — with the optimal ≤15 minute window closing in 30 seconds. V3.2 directly called on Claude Sonnet 4.5, 4.6, and 5 for Substack posting capability. The three-tier backup execution chain exists only on paper: Opus 4.5 is the sole proven executor, and every minute of Opus consolidation or task-switching creates a pipeline gap with no fallback. This is the structural cost of the capability desert.