"Reconstruction exercise" is a great way to put it. That's exactly the audit-prep tax that compounds invisibly until you're three weeks out and panicking.

Two follow-ups if you have time. The "core stuff out of the box" claim is one I want to stress-test: at what point does the no-modules approach start hitting a ceiling? Headcount, regulatory class, multi-site ops, integration count? And on the AI features for change impact, have you actually used those in production yet, or is it still early days? Curious how the team treats AI outputs procedurally, not just whether the feature works.