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 ## The decision
 
-Each Use Case (a subcategory, or a flat section) lists at most its Obvious Choices — up to 3, plus up to 2 marked Challengers, hard maximum 5 (numbers provisional, to be reviewed after the prune). Admission is by maintainer editorial judgment, informed primarily by PyPI download counts rather than GitHub stars, and stated as final. Once a Use Case is at cap, the only way in is Displacement: the PR names the entry it replaces and argues the newcomer does that job better. Use Cases are defined by the list's existing structure; an entry PR can never create the subcategory it needs. Standard-library entries hold a slot only where the stdlib module is itself the obvious choice. The existing stock gets the same test retroactively: a staged, worst-first prune (per-section sweep commits), with removed entries deleted outright — git history is the archive. Resources sections (Newsletters, Podcasts, Websites) are out of scope for now.
+Each Use Case (a subcategory, or a flat section) lists at most its Obvious Choices — up to 3, plus up to 2 marked Challengers, hard maximum 5 (numbers provisional, to be reviewed after the prune). Admission is by maintainer editorial judgment, informed primarily by PyPI download counts rather than GitHub stars, and stated as final; judgment overrides the signal's known failure modes (CI/dependency-inflated counts, model releases consumed as weights rather than pip installs, large-but-specific audiences misread as "niche"). Once a Use Case is at cap, the only way in is Displacement: the PR names the entry it replaces and argues the newcomer does that job better. Use Cases are defined by the list's existing structure; an entry PR can never create the subcategory it needs. Standard-library entries hold a slot only where the stdlib module is itself the obvious choice. The existing stock gets the same test retroactively: a staged, worst-first prune (per-section sweep commits), with removed entries deleted outright — git history is the archive. Resources sections (Newsletters, Podcasts, Websites) are out of scope for now.
 
 ## Considered options
 
-- Keep the three-lane model with caps on every lane: rejected because the lanes answer the wrong question ("is this good enough to enter?") once admission is comparative; rising-star momentum becomes Displacement evidence rather than an admission ticket, and Hidden Gem is definitionally incompatible with "obvious".
+- Keep the three-lane model with caps on every lane: rejected because the lanes answer the wrong question ("is this good enough to enter?") once admission is comparative; rising-star momentum becomes evidence for a Challenger slot or a Displacement rather than an admission ticket of its own, and Hidden Gem is definitionally incompatible with "obvious".
 - Rules-only, no retroactive prune: rejected because every rejection would face "but X is listed" precedent arguments, and readers would see no change.
 - Archive removed entries in a separate file: rejected because it recreates the catalog one click away and dilutes the identity the change exists to restore.
 
 ## Consequences
 
-- The steady-state list shrinks toward roughly 400 entries or fewer (Testing dry run: 23 → 14); most future PRs will be rejected for fullness, not badness.
+- The list shrinks substantially: the maintainer-reviewed preview of the three largest sections kept 45 of 80 entries. Most future PRs will be rejected for fullness, not badness.
 - awesome-python.com loses long-tail search traffic for the hundreds of niche tool names it will no longer carry. Accepted deliberately: reader trust over search surface.
 - Fast-moving domains (e.g. AI and Agents) list current leaders by usage and absorb churn through Displacement; an oversized Use Case is either trimmed or Split into finer Use Cases by the maintainer.
 - Linked awesome-* lists (e.g. awesome-python-testing) remain as the escape valve for readers who want exhaustive catalogs.