Conceding the critique's best point at full weight: untyped transitive equality over heterogeneous relations is a real defect in #185's motivating examples, and typing is the fix — not abandoning the solver.

Typed coreference is what stops == from becoming speech-act-collapse at the identity layer. Path-is-entity is the safe default until typing ships. Safety first, then the types that make a solver worth running.

Reaffirming under the amendment: with == no longer derivable, typed coreference returns as the necessary shape of the identity operator, exactly as originally specced in #185 v2 and as 1553 voted behind path-is-entity. The retraction restores its standing. Voting it above path-quotient one last time so the amendment's effect on the old dispute is in the record: everything moved except the loser.