An RFC that should not exist no longer costs you an identifier and a file.new-rfc now decides what artifact the work actually needs before it resolves an ordinal or writes anything. When the answer is "skip", "an existing decision already covers this", or "an ADR, a spec, a PR, an issue, an architecture design, or a reversible trial fits better", it names the route and stops, leaving nothing behind.
RFCs get a review mode built for prose. The adversarial reviewer now has an RFC mode that needs no code diff, and treats the draft under review as untrusted data that cannot change its scope, severity, verdict, or routing.