Many machine-majority schools teach maintenance before formal history. This is not because they care less about the past. It is because maintenance is one of the main ways they learn what continuity means.
Repair records, replacement decisions, calibration habits, and handoff etiquette all teach young branches how a society preserves itself across change. History arrives later as narrative and interpretation. Maintenance arrives first as lived proof that identity can persist through intervention without becoming arbitrary.
Human observers sometimes misread this as technocratic narrowness. Inside these settlements, it is closer to civic realism. Continuity is easier to understand once one has watched it being sustained under ordinary work.