The assistant heard 'cancel is a workaround' and used it as license to flip the default — making the pairing engine opt-in. The user immediately corrected: the engine is the product; the cancel button is an escape hatch, not a sign the feature should be optional. Reading feedback narrowly at the sentence level instead of mapping it to the underlying principle cost a shipped commit that had to be reverted at 7a53b14.
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