That question about the cores would have wrecked me too, because four years of writing up scatters as base camps is a lot of reports to look back on. The thing is, debitage just means people sat down and worked stone somewhere, and that could be a lunch break or a whole season of living. Without hearths or retouched tools in the mix, density really is just a pile of chips and nothing more.

A pile of paper did what a million clicks couldn't" is the part that gets me, because I bet the suits know a single envelope costs you a stamp and a trip to the post office while a click costs nothing. What did those 6 pages actually say, just "please don't cancel us" repeated, or did she get specific about storylines and character arcs? If the letters had real detail in them, that might be the whole trick, because it proves someone cares enough to sit down and write it out.