diff --git a/drawfence.go b/drawfence.go
index 4d34014..34acf2e 100644
--- a/drawfence.go
+++ b/drawfence.go
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ func (f *drawFence) checkRecordDraws(path string, n node) error {
 	if !ok || !t.isRecord {
 		return nil
 	}
-	// A record-only template's format renders nothing, so weigh the columns, not the format.
 	columns := sortedNames(t.fields)
 	reads := false
 	for _, name := range columns {
diff --git a/graph.go b/graph.go
index d99fb26..868f75a 100644
--- a/graph.go
+++ b/graph.go
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // walkNodes calls fn once per contained node, passing the dot path that reaches it,
-// visiting keys in sorted order so which of several broken nodes gets reported does
-// not depend on map iteration.
+// visiting keys in sorted order.
 func walkNodes(root map[string]node, fn func(path string, n node) error) error {
 	for _, name := range sortedNames(root) {
 		if err := eachNode(root[name], name, fn); err != nil {
diff --git a/holdfence.go b/holdfence.go
index 3248072..6f5bfd0 100644
--- a/holdfence.go
+++ b/holdfence.go
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ func heldCheck(path string, n node) error {
 }
 
 // heldNames lists a template's held names, operands' first, then paths', each
-// in name order: a level read both ways is reported by the operand's fence, and
-// which overlap is reported does not vary.
+// in name order: a level read both ways is reported by the operand's fence.
 func heldNames(t *template) []string {
 	names := make([]string, 0, len(t.compiled.held))
 	for name := range t.compiled.held {
@@ -172,8 +171,7 @@ func renders(n node, want, seen map[node]bool) bool {
 // checkNoOverlap rejects a format that both renders a sibling level and reads a path
 // into it — {p} beside {p.first}, {p.addr} beside {p.addr.city}. The path reads the
 // level's held draw while rendering the level expands it afresh, so their values would
-// disagree. Reads are compared in sorted order, so which pair is reported does not
-// depend on where the tokens sit.
+// disagree.
 // docs/decisions.md#a-bare-reference-draws-each-time-a-reference-path-is-held
 func checkNoOverlap(c formatOps) error {
 	names := pathHeadReaders(c)
diff --git a/node.go b/node.go
index bf158b9..69044e0 100644
--- a/node.go
+++ b/node.go
@@ -371,8 +371,7 @@ func readOptions(m map[string]any, pos position) (templateOptions, error) {
 	return o, nil
 }
 
-// compileFields compiles every non-option key of a template object, in name order
-// so which of several bad fields is reported does not vary.
+// compileFields compiles every non-option key of a template object, in name order.
 func compileFields(m map[string]any, pos position) (map[string]node, error) {
 	fields := make(map[string]node, len(m))
 	keys := make([]string, 0, len(m))
diff --git a/readsurvey.go b/readsurvey.go
index c819800..5844166 100644
--- a/readsurvey.go
+++ b/readsurvey.go
@@ -214,8 +214,7 @@ func (r *tableRead) replay(d *pinSet) error {
 
 // check refuses what one draw per reference path cannot answer for: a read selecting a row its route
 // pinned another of, a read of a level beside a path another read takes into it, and two reads of one
-// table family that select different rows. Reads are compared in path order, so which pair is
-// reported does not vary.
+// table family that select different rows.
 func (s *readSurvey) check() error {
 	if s.clash != nil {
 		return s.clash
@@ -242,7 +241,7 @@ func (s *readSurvey) check() error {
 // checkFamilies refuses reads of one table family in one draw group that cannot
 // read one consistent draw: a table rendered whole beside a path into the family,
 // a table one read draws that another pins, and two reads pinning different rows.
-// The reads come sorted by group and path, so which pair is reported does not vary.
+// The reads come sorted by group and path.
 func checkFamilies(reads []pathRead) error {
 	for i, r := range reads {
 		if r.tr == nil {
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index a02fb17..1d4808a 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@ ranking `readSurvey.walk` and `edge` hardest and the unit they would least modif
 
 This round, in order:
 
-- Delete the "so which … is reported does not vary" clause at its five sites past
-  `checkNodeFences`, and `checkRecordDraws`' "A record-only template's format renders
-  nothing", which runs over templates with a format too.
 - Run the nine-seat panel again and file what it names here.
 
 ### Data