Run 5 Whys on Stale Metadata

The catalog says users_core refreshes nightly, but the pipeline moved to hourly six months ago. 5 Whys for metadata decay: symptom -> change -> missed update -> missing trigger -> process control. The common trap is fixing the stale text and leaving the maintenance system unchanged. Why 1-2 Why is the catalog wrong? The pipeline changed. Why did metadata not change? No one updated the catalog after deployment. The first answers identify the event but not the system cause. Why 3-4 Why did deployment skip the catalog? The release checklist only covers tests and monitoring. Why? Metadata ownership is separate…

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