When a problem keeps recurring or a fix keeps failing, the visible description of the problem is usually the wrong shape. The backlog, the cap, the missing URL are symptoms; the real problem is one layer down — an infra smell, a different filter, a wrong source model. The diagnostic signal is not 'dig deeper' as a virtue, but specifically 'recurrence without progress': doing the surface action repeatedly produces the same surface state.
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