HCD.10:5.3 - Vary the Release Case instead of Rewarding Refusal

One practice episode supplies a report for FW7 when FW8 is required; the warranted action is to reject that use. A later variant supplies compatible HW3/FW8/SCHED2 evidence and 24 test hours. Ten changes in three homogeneous batches require 23 hours, so a bounded continuation is supported while demand of twelve leaves a growing queue. Repeating the earlier refusal now fails. With only 22 hours, promising ten changes becomes unsupported again.

The variants change evidence applicability and capacity separately. Their value lies in selecting refusal, continuation, or constraint revision from the current condition, not in increasing difficulty or changing surface context.