From my perspective, the “sovereignty-first” approach creates a paradox. On one hand, the highly regulated industries that use Ada or COBOL or Rust, such as defense, aerospace, banking, require that air-gapped security for survival. On the other hand, isolation is the natural enemy of discovery. The real risk is that in our rush to be “sovereign,” we build a fortress that perfectly preserves our oldest mistakes. We verify the logic but ignore the environment, and in an air-gapped world, there is no one on the outside to tell us we’re missing the point.