Title: 'Beyond Accuracy and Alignment: A Diagnostic Evaluation Protocol
for Feedback Alignment'

Structure (per round 21 prescription):
  Abstract: 'broken because conflated' framing, 2 distinct modes named
  §1 Introduction: discovery hook -> 2-mode framing -> contribution
  §2 Related work
  §3 Audit (the field-standard pair walks back nothing)
  §4 The diagnostic protocol (4 diagnostics, calibrated thresholds,
     decision-utility ablation, cross-architecture validation)
  §5 Two distinct failure modes (mechanism, penalty rescue, direct
     cosine measurement, hypothesis-disambiguation, capacity-cost control)
  §6 Limitations
  §7 Broader impacts
  §8 Conclusion
  Appendices: reproducibility, 7-pitfalls catalog, walk-back chain (4 step),
              all 6 validations of the two-mode separation

Includes 4 result tables, ~10 references, structured as eandd track
double-blind submission. 760 lines of LaTeX, balanced environments
verified. Ready for compilation on a system with pdflatex.

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