[ycombobreaker]

Sometimes it pays to be the most-prepared among your cohort. In this case, it would have paid so well that your cohort decided to work around it.

It always pays to not be the least-prepared among your cohort. You'll get no sympathy if you're at the back of the pack, you'll just die.

[xmprt]

Another moral of the story could be that sometimes it's best to have a people solution to a technical problem.

[bentcorner]

Sometimes yes, the best answer to "doctor, it hurts when I do this" is actually "then don't do that".

[teaearlgraycold]

There must have been discussions earlier about the market freeze. Finding/starting those would have been the correct approach, with a technical solution as a backup.