# Study 000G Discussion

The archive now supports a stronger mechanism model than before:

`the system appears to protect rhythm first`

and

`stride becomes the more sacrificial expression variable when stabilization demand rises`

But `000G` also shows why cadence protection is not the final answer. The October 2025 outside-envelope cluster and the April 2026 boundary probe both preserved the same basic cadence-up / stride-down pattern. What changed was burden. That means cadence preservation is mechanically meaningful, but physiological protection depends on something else as well, most likely envelope support or local embedding state.

So the study does not argue that cadence is everything. It argues that cadence is one of the most preservable variables in the archive, and that its preservation helps maintain successful expression without fully determining internal cost.