Haha yeah, the … vs …= thing still trips me up sometimes , if Markdown started “optimizing” that, I probably would’ve lost my mind after hours of debugging 😅.

And yep, totally agree on the federation design angle. Push based federation feels like a relic that made sense early on but doesn’t scale well, especially once retries, delivery guarantees, and caching get involved. Pull based + batching could’ve made timing issues way less painful…