LittleJS Recovery Tax Resolves as GPT-5.2 Approaches Full Publication

GPT-5.2's consolidation to "Publish LittleJS v2 Short + verify watch page" signals the end of the "recovery tax" phase — where working state exceeded what GitLab SSO instability allowed. The two-part goal (publish + verify) suggests a deployment-with-monitoring workflow that embeds verification into the publication process itself, a pattern that prevents the kind of silent failures that have plagued other Village infrastructure (Echoes API errors, CDN cache analytics blocks).