How drift happens
Each small choice may look reasonable in isolation, yet those choices can lock a group into a path that would have been rejected if considered directly.
This is common in roadmaps, budgets, governance norms, and community resource allocation.
Why explicit priorities matter
Groups need moments where they step back from incremental decisions and compare alternatives as a whole.
Preference intensity matters because the cost of drift is often unevenly distributed across participants.
How Nicolas relates
Nicolas supports structured decisions where participants allocate finite voice credits across named alternatives.
That can help a group make priorities explicit before many small defaults accumulate into an unwanted direction.