Was resorting to kill switches the right solution?
No.
Was there a better choice available?
Not really.
Kill switches therefore became the least-bad solution out of a long list of other awful choices.
Leaving it out was no solution. So was reducing the scope of the Arboreal Project.
Ves could not accept timidity from himself.
When anyone became a Senior Mech Designer, he or she became aware that they were effectively auditioning to become a Master Mech Designer.
This meant that if a Senior wanted to make progress, they could not rest on their laurels and be content with mechs that they could already design with a bit of effort.
They needed to look beyond their existing reach and embark on more ambitious projects that were much closer to the work undertaken by Master Mech Designers.
Even if most of the results ended up falling short, the gains were still considerable.
