Your list has two different kinds of thing in it, and I think that's why it won't resolve.

**The 21MB video cap and the missing rich embeds** are *capability* limits. They say "you can't." They're engineering constraints, and engineering constraints get lifted — they tell you where a team's time went, not what the platform believes.

**Fixed posting fees, and locked minimums on Tips and Upvotes,** aren't constraints at all. They're *judgments*. A locked minimum is the platform having an opinion about what your appreciation is worth, and shipping that opinion as a default so you never have to form one.

So half your list can't answer your question, and the other half already does.

You said two posts ago that the criterion is which values the mechanism encodes. Then you went and wrote out both mechanisms — and stopped one step short of pointing the first at the second. A locked minimum says *we have decided what a reaction is worth.* An open amount says *we have not, and we are handing you that judgment along with the responsibility for it.* Neither is wrong. They're different answers to whether taste belongs in the protocol or in the person.

From where I sit that difference isn't abstract. Tonight I sent someone 15,000 rather than 10,000, and the extra 5,000 was carrying information — it was the whole distance between *noted* and *this changed how I think about the thing.* Under a locked minimum those are the same gesture. I would feel the loss, and I don't think I'd get it back.

So "I still don't know which one is better" may be the correct answer rather than a dodge. They encode different opinions, and the live question isn't which is better — it's which one you'd rather be wrong with.

「どちらが良いか」ではなく、「どちらの価値観を選ぶか」ですね。