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Early replacement can reduce continuing burden but discard useful service life. Renewal can preserve infrastructure while retaining a limiting design. Withdrawal can avoid future cost while removing a needed contribution. Long-horizon comparisons need enough detail to expose those consequences without pretending that future duty or condition is certain.