E.13:12 - Consequences

• FPF can use scores and metrics without making them the object of optimization.
• Improvement loops gain a simple value-proxy stop condition.
• Practical payoff claims need at least a small value slice.
• Some attractive proxy improvements are rejected, split, or lowered.
• The cost is a small proxy-to-value check whenever a visible measure becomes a target, incentive, gate, release argument, or repair target.