Wasted only if there was no intended or accidental benefit to your stage work apart from the bump in activity score. If you or anyone else got and enjoyment from it, or learned anything, then it wasn't wasted. Also no one is going to notice or miss …
I failed to notice the signs that Errabundus may have degenerative myelopathy. If true, he's going to lose the use of his back legs, then his front legs, then his brain stem. But supposedly it isn't painful.
Serious question. What would have happened if everyone sat out on the promotion the second we realized it was broken? If direct communication, public outcry, and ongoing "abuse" of the promotion didn't catch the administration's attention, would we …