docs: stop the critic loop at cycle 3 and record why

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The bar was every category ≥ 8 on two consecutive cycles. It was never met, and this records that plainly rather than leaving three FAIL verdicts in a directory with no conclusion.

             c1    c2    c3
mechanic      7  →  7  →  7      never moved
evidence      5  →  5  →  5      never moved
mobileUx      5  →  7  →  6
robustness    6  →  5  →  6
codeQuality   6  →  7  →  7
findings     10  →  9  → 14      rising

Each fix round introduced a regression the next cycle caught — cycle 2's crossfade created cycle 3's pin-atomicity bug, now #105.

Two structural reasons another round wouldn't help. The mechanic blocker asks for a non-circular relevance instrument, and workstream B measured three times that no cheap statistic has that power — the blocker requires the thing already measured as unavailable. And evidence scored 5 three times running, which isn't a code problem: it needs a committed corpus, a reproducible fixture, and prose reconciled across four documents that disagree.

It earned its cost anyway

Four things no unit test or source guard found, because it read the live capture rather than the source's claims about itself:

• The edge never happened — ranking picked the nearest unseen candidate globally, so the surface teleported while reporting local exhaustion.
• The crossfade never faded — CSS declared, JS never toggled, and both the source guard and the browser check read computed declarations.
• The harness bundled stale screenshots, presenting a previous run's evidence as current.
• SEED_TETHER_MIN = 0.414 has no provenance in this repo, and our own committed evidence contains counterexamples above it (#104). That one is worth the whole exercise — a claim I made repeatedly, in code comments and commit messages, while enforcing the opposite standard on everything else.

Findings filed as #104–#110. Spec status line corrected — it still read "approved, not yet implemented" while the surface was live.

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