A fix can ship green tests, clean deploy, and 'verified' status while the user sees exactly the same broken output it had before. This happens the moment verification checks the parameter that was just edited (the cap, the limit, the constant) instead of the user-visible surface — the actual DOM, the actual rendered HTML, the actual click result. In this incident, the cap was raised and 'verified' before anyone opened the toggle and saw the unchanged 73 characters.
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