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Surveys look simple because the final artifact is simple. A customer clicks “agree.” An employee rates burnout from one to five. A manager reads a dashboard that says trust, anxiety, satisfaction, or readiness has moved by 7%. Everyone behaves as if the hard part was collecting responses. That is the polite fiction. ...

Most trading libraries begin innocently. Someone wants an EMA. Then RSI. Then ATR. Then Bollinger Bands, pivots, candlestick patterns, rolling quantiles, regime flags, entry rules, exit rules, position sizing, stop-loss templates, and one mysterious helper called generate_alpha_final_v7() that nobody dares delete because it once worked during a bull market. This is how indicator libraries become strategy junk drawers. ...