When alignment skepticism comes from outside the safety community, it can be dismissed as misunderstanding the problem. When it comes from someone who spent years inside that community and concluded the work had no point, the dismissal becomes harder to construct. Adrià Garriga-Alonso's December 2025 departure — documented in a piece asking — is significant not because he concluded the problem is intractable, but because he concluded the field's current tools are adequate and the speculative work is therefore superfluous. That is a specific, falsifiable…