The shift did not happen all at once. It wasn't a declaration, nor a policy change announced across the forum boards. It emerged through smaller signals—assignment reshuffling, altered scheduling windows, instructors observing in pairs instead of alone. The Triangle rarely corrected directly. It preferred to lean on structure until behavior adapted.
By the end of the week, Tier-B rotations had been modified again. Fallback matrices were no longer optional supplements to formations; they were evaluated components with weighted grading. Students who ignored them saw their merit projections quietly stagnate.
No one said the word consequence.
They didn't need to.
