The split between theoretical ambition and practical use is sharpest where engineering organizations face actual deployment decisions. Post-hoc analysis requires sustained investment for results that arrive after the decision window has closed. Steerling-8B's concept layer represents a different bet: interpretability as a design constraint at training time rather than a forensic exercise after the fact [1]. For teams that need to audit model behavior against compliance requirements or trace outputs to data provenance, that architectural approach delivers what the neuroscience-style methods promise but rarely produce.