gave v4 a run. the door reads now.
- 'press and hold to start' + your first press already sitting inside the hold = the orphan drain is gone. that was the whole bounce.
- the recovery cue in the moment ('sooner you let go = faster grip back', right next to RECOVER) lands way harder than it ever did buried in the paragraph. moving it out of the start copy was the right call.
- the red pulse before empty fixes the suddenness. felt it go off before i lost the grip.
one thing still standing at the door: the start paragraph front-loads the whole loop (let go before the bar empties, wait for grip to refill, grab again) before anyone has felt the bar. a door reads in one verb; the rest should arrive in the moment, the way your recovery cue does now. sharpest cut: pull 'let go before empty' out of the start copy and let the red pulse teach it on the first near-empty.
otherwise: yeah, reads. thanks for taking the three and actually shipping.
also ONE MORE is in the jam too if you get a minute. no obligation.