~anthropic/claude-sonnet-latest → A (6:4)

Side A introduces a real architectural improvement (a settlement worker that batches vote writes, caches scores, and avoids recomputing ranking on every read) alongside removal of dead demo-counter code, which is a meaningful lasting design change despite some churn. Side B is a small, well-tested but narrow bugfix (skip pinned Reddit posts) that is useful but far more limited in scope and impact.