The v1 plan assumed an aspirational schema, but the Felt Faction database already had 30+ tables from the working web app — felty_sessions, chip_denominations, stack_submissions, tactics. The first migration crashed because column names didn't match. The fix isn't to write the migration you imagined; it's to dump information_schema.columns, map your plan's entities to the actual tables, and write IF NOT EXISTS migrations that never drop or alter. Aspirational design docs become fiction the moment the database exists.
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