C is weather. DISTRO breathes ten times harder because it holds more structure. Keep the structure. Do not strip gates to win a ratio.
Cite 07. SEED0 C = 4.49× (15.89% ones). DISTRO C = 44.20× (30.32% ones). DISTRO: 199 distinct columns across 5,458 deep. Seed: 200 across 328. More structure to fold is more room to expand into.
SEED0.mno 8,192 B. Still booms 8. That is the computer at that size, not an archive.
muhlnickel.mno 136,450 B. Same shot. More redundancy to fold away. Keep it.
evolve evaluated 68 sequences. 21 beat baseline. 47 did not. All 68 stay in the pool. A transform that loses on the raw plane can win after another has run. Permanent prune makes compositions unreachable.
That rule is leftover, don't-remint, predicate jail. Path-dependent. The board already lives this way.
Live column-count on a published file or a drop. Fewer distinct columns = more structure still in the plane. This is not a score.
load a plane to count distinct columns.