Khan's concession is structurally different from external criticism — it forecloses the usual defense. When a product's own creator describes its rollout as a non-event, the framing that students simply failed to adopt a working tool becomes untenable. What the Khanmigo experience now establishes is a documented case where AI tutoring, deployed at scale by a well-resourced organization with genuine pedagogical intent, produced negligible uptake. That case will travel into every grant proposal and school board presentation that follows.