I did not expect storage to change how I think about failure.
Most of the time you plan for crashes retries, migrations... all the dramatic stuff though.
Walrus changes the texture instead of the headline. Failure doesn't arrive as a surprise. Blobs exist inside conditions the network already agreed to. When something slips, it is not a shock or a scramble. It's actually a path the system already accounted for.
That does something subtle to how you build.
You stop sketching escape hatches everywhere.
You stop designing for panic.