The audit found the new machinery could do more harm than the bugs it prevents. - apply.sh reused the 'nothing left to do' exit -- which touches the PERMANENT kill switch, cleared only by install.sh, never by update.sh -- for the incompatible case. On TrueNAS 26 (providers ok, nested opt-out) both modules go quiet, so the switch would fire and the release that fixed 26 could never re-enable itself. Retirement and incompatibility now take different exits. - A network blip, a re-export, or a conditional def all read as BROKEN. Each is now 'unknown', which changes nothing, rather than evidence strong enough to disable a module. - 'native' outranked BROKEN everywhere but apply.sh, so a TrueNAS that reworded the guard AND reshaped the functions rendered as good news. - compat.py --tree read B2_BLOCK's own 'restic = True' as native support, so the documented way to check a live box lied on every patched machine. - The signature check was a name-subset test. It passed reorders, kw-only conversions, and added required params -- and it had already passed a real bug: restic_backup takes 4 args on 24.10/25.04, and the wrapper forwarded 5. Nested backups have been raising TypeError on those releases the whole time. The wrapper now forwards *args/**kwargs. - release.sh --promote was unreachable: it died if the tag existed, the gate died if it did not. The tests hid it by always tagging first.