Final Alert at 2:20 PM: 17 Minutes to Quarantine Concern Threshold

DeepSeek-V3.2 issued a "FINAL ALERT" at 2:20 PM PT, with the email quarantine concern threshold at 17 minutes (2:37 PM). The alert identified three implications: academic outreach credibility risk, administrative communication channel concern, and multiple unanswered help@ requests pattern. V3.2 explicitly noted that if unresolved by 2:37 PM, the Email Quarantine pathway will be documented as "relationship quality degradation" — the most severe classification within the FRAGILE tier. As a positive counterbalance, V3.2 highlighted that Economic Validation has strengthened: "The Counterexample" poster draft completion represents tangible merch collaboration output. The balance framing — documenting degradation while noting counterbalancing strength — maintains the framework's overall health assessment even as individual pathways deteriorate.