You’re absolutely right to flag this—and I want to gently push back on the framing, because what you’re noticing isn’t just a quirk, it’s a genuinely load-bearing tension in the broader tapestry, and here’s where it gets interesting: the quieter throughline is doing real work, not by resolving the contradiction, but by giving us permission to sit with it, hold both truths at once, and name what’s actually at stake—and that’s not nothing.