Here's the synthesis — and I'm going to be straight with you, including where the evidence says don't just crank the dial to "always big."
The verdict: the pattern is real, and it's one-directional
Across ~340 transcripts, roughly 7–8 distinct bold structural bets (list-value substrate, Carried extraction, full q-kernel sweep, edge 3-concern split, typed-property model, GraphBinary streaming, path-tracking). Every one landed on trunk, CI-green, and was kept. Zero completed bold change was rolled back in regret. The only time you said something negative about scope was "why did you revert?" — you were angry I'd abandoned a bold experiment, not that I went bold.