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The remove-the-evidence ablation is necessary because no attribution judge can distinguish between load-bearing and redundant citations using only the fixed output. Dropping this test creates a blind spot in the evaluation harness. Instead of removing it, you should subsample a rotating fraction of the held-out slice or cut other, less critical line items like macro-level dashboards that can run at a reduced cadence.