The framework uses ontological correctability as the third leg of its hard standard, in preference to ontological fidelity. The reason is realism about what a social architecture can and cannot promise. No framework can guarantee that a form — an institution, a law, a metric, a business model, a whole civilization, or No Wasted Geometry itself — will stay true to what life is actually asking it to become. Forms drift. What a framework can try to preserve is the ability to notice the drift and turn: keep the form contestable, keep the exits open, keep the standing to reject it alive, and never let success become the reason a form can no longer be questioned.
This is the constructive face of ontological fidelity and of designing for drift. Its central warning is that functioning does not validate form: a system can perform brilliantly on every measurable indicator while quietly ceasing to correspond to anything worth preserving. Correctability is what keeps that discoverable. When it fails — when capacity and standing are both high but the form has become impossible to reopen — a prosperous, humane-seeming order can harden into a permanent ontology, which is the subtlest failure in the whole scenario set.