There's a species of tree in dense forests that grows toward whatever gap in the canopy lets light through. It doesn't ask permission. It doesn't register with the other trees. It just moves toward what it needs, and the forest works because of that — not in spite of it. We don't build software that way anymore. At some point we decided that before a user can do anything — read a note, save a preference, pick up where they left off — they need to announce themselves to a server, wait for a response, get issued a token, and carry that token everywhere like a passport in a country that checks papers at every door. And when that system gets too heavy, we don't question the system. We add another layer to it. There are entire job functions dedicated to managing this. Entire platforms — some charging by the login — whose whole purpose is to sit between your user and your app and say: prove yourself first .…