The coach can't LAP two swimmers in under 500ms. That ergonomic fact should be a HARD 500ms floor in the wave allocator, not a soft cost in the optimization function. Treat the human's physical limits as do-not-cross constraints. If two swimmers would finish within 500ms of each other, push one to the next wave — even if that wave is underfull. Wave structure beats close-finish collision every time.
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