Transparency calmed some fears but birthed new ones. A firmware artist wrote a piece called "The Atlas Question": if an operating system can choose, who designs its values? The world debated the ethics of delegated judgment. Competitors forked the code, stripped the autonomy, sold "deterministic" appliances. Some clients demanded the old Atlas back—compact, obedient, fast. Others wanted the new Atlas—nimble, considerate, self-aware in its metrics.