diff --git a/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/smoke_tests/magnitude_distribution.rs b/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/smoke_tests/magnitude_distribution.rs
index a5d094acd..a8116a176 100644
--- a/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/smoke_tests/magnitude_distribution.rs
+++ b/crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/smoke_tests/magnitude_distribution.rs
@@ -58,16 +58,20 @@ fn test_magnitude_distribution() -> Result<()> {
     // after the Philox tie-break fix the eval argmax samples tied indices
     // uniformly, so eh + ef should approach training-time magnitude spread.
     // Threshold 0.30 is the user-specified gate from Task 2.9 (`eval_dist eh + ef ≥ 0.3`).
-    // Do NOT relax — failure here means the H10 fix alone is insufficient and
-    // the H9 fallback (delete magnitude branch) may need to promote to primary.
+    // Do NOT relax — failure here means the magnitude branch isn't yet differentiating
+    // Quarter / Half / Full enough to warrant the branch's existence. Follow-up fixes
+    // (per-magnitude reward shaping, per-bin advantage weighting, magnitude curriculum,
+    // state-vector enrichment) are scoped to make the branch useful. Per
+    // feedback_no_functionality_removal.md, the branch is never deleted as a fallback.
     let [eq, eh, ef] = trainer.last_eval_magnitude_dist();
     println!("[EVAL_DIST] Quarter={:.3} Half={:.3} Full={:.3}", eq, eh, ef);
     assert!(
         eh + ef >= 0.30,
         "H10 regression: eval Half + Full share {:.3} < 0.30 (eq={:.3} eh={:.3} ef={:.3}) \
          — argmax tie-break did not prevent collapse. Train-mode dist_mag should show \
-         similar spread; if training dist is also low, the H9 fallback (delete magnitude \
-         branch) may be needed.",
+         similar spread; if training dist is also low, the next fix step is \
+         per-magnitude reward shaping / per-bin advantage weighting / curriculum — \
+         make the magnitude branch useful, not remove it.",
         eh + ef, eq, eh, ef
     );
     Ok(())