On the other hand, if something happened after takeoff, responsibility would matter. Reports would be written. Questions would be asked. Names would be attached. No one wanted to be the person who knowingly allowed the wrong thing to stay in place.
Alyssa also realized with sudden sympathy that the crew wasn’t to blame. They hadn’t created the problem. Alyssa could see that now. They had inherited a problem, trapped between a system that didn’t feel and a reality that did.