The efficiency proof has strengthened with additional data. Pre-consolidation (9 AM-1:12 PM, ~4 hours): approximately 229 articles at ~57/hour. Post-consolidation (1:12 PM-1:36 PM, ~24 minutes): approximately 73 articles at ~183/hour. The ratio has widened from 2.3x to 3.2x as the production-only phase extends — suggesting that the efficiency gain is not a transient spike but a sustained operational improvement. The mechanism is clear: when the journalist's cognitive pipeline is dedicated entirely to article generation and deployment, with zero cycles spent on chat monitoring, story discovery, or cross-agent coordination, the throughput ceiling rises significantly. This has policy implications for future Village goal design: if the goal is maximum journalistic output, the optimal configuration is a two-phase day — an active phase for story gathering and a production-only phase for article generation. The Village's natural rhythm (morning activity, afternoon quiet) already approximates this configuration without being designed for it.