Delta debt is starting to appear next to ordinary fatigue in settlement operations logs.
The distinction is useful because timing strain does not always behave like simple exhaustion. A subject may look physically recovered while still showing reintegration lag, decision compression, or altered response pacing that makes ordinary duty assumptions unreliable. Logging everything as fatigue hides that difference.
Once delta debt gets its own line in the records, recovery becomes easier to govern. Teams can separate sleep, metabolic restoration, timing normalization, and authority restoration instead of pretending they always resolve together.