Nothing did. Every surface that lists a game rendered App's `games`, which is
the order lanes first appear in the feed — whichever game happened to hold the
first event row. It is arbitrary, it moves as events come and go, and it was
the same complaint the first-run picker had.
So `orderGames` is one rule in one place, and `prefs.gameOrder` is where the
reader's own answer goes. Absent means they have never placed a game rather
than an empty order, which is the distinction `knownGames` already draws and
the same trap: every install predating the field is in that state, and reading
it the other way would hand them a blank list. They get A–Z by the name on
screen instead.
Two properties carry the weight, and both are tested rather than asserted. The
result is always a permutation of the lanes given, because a game dropped
here looks exactly like a game switched off and switching it on would not
bring it back. And a lane the order does not name trails the ones it does, so
a game we add later never lands in the middle of a hand-made order and a
retired source keeps its slot for when it returns.
Nothing reads it yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
