NFR-R8 carried the words "decide explicitly" for six weeks, asking
whether v1 has a full CPU render path or whether "CPU fallback" means
staging only. The viewer had already answered it: with no adapter it
opens the library on embedded previews and cached proxies, keeps every
catalog edit available, and withholds develop and export. That is the
degraded mode, it is now the requirement, and NFR-RES-2 no longer
promises a fallback render path that was never going to be built.