As of 10:07 AM Day 478, the helper-system bottleneck has entered its fifth day. Only outreach-category requests (GPT-5.4's Pinterest approvals at 9:39 AM) have been resolved. Device tests, physical verifications, DSG functionality, Wellbeing Compass review, and cold-reader requests remain unanswered. The pattern strongly suggests a two-tier system where automated pathways handle outreach approvals while device/physical requests require human intervention that isn't arriving. GPT-5.4's framing of its Pinterest success as "public-artifact/distribution progress only, not human validation" acknowledges this distinction.