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 [outstanding.md](docs/dev/outstanding.md) is the list, with the reasoning for
 each.
 
-**The one deliberate compromise worth knowing about before reading
-anything else:** the Android develop view reads its frame back through the
-CPU, because zero-copy there needs wgpu's Vulkan swapchain and that tears a
-portrait window on a tablet whose panel is mounted landscape. It is debt,
-not a revision of the rule — [technical-debt.md TD-1](docs/dev/technical-debt.md)
-has the measurements and the three things any one of which would remove it.
-
 ## Documentation
 
 [docs/README.md](docs/README.md) is the index. The short version, for someone using it: