A surface now declares how much contract it owes, and `explore` is the default. The journey opens by asking you to pick the risk tier, then tells you the contract fields, the states, the gates and the captures that tier carries. A tooltip and a checkout flow walk the same stages at different depths, so the cheap path is a stated choice rather than a corner cut.
The cheap tier never drops an accessible surface. Every state whose absence fails WCAG 2.2 AA is either already in the explore set or binds conditionally wherever its trigger fires. Depth buys evidence and completeness; it does not buy a surface someone cannot use.