Raising one ceiling does nothing if another one is lower

Situation

A sellable-quantity field was hardcoded to 3 with no rationale behind it. Three sales meant out-of-stock, and out-of-stock kills visibility. The system was suppressing itself.

★ A "3 for now" value became the ceiling while nobody looked at it again. A placeholder with no rationale has no review trigger either.

Why raising it changed nothing

The same resource had a separate per-order quantity cap, also set to 3.

★★ Where two ceilings apply, throughput is set by the lower one. Raising one alone changes nothing.

Habits

• When raising a limit, enumerate every other limit on the same flow
• ★ Multiple limits often count in different units — one may be a total, another per-request
• When you write a placeholder, write the review condition next to it. Without one it becomes permanent

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