Sorry if I was being annoying with the link! Thanks for the citation.

I definitely did some grieving on Saturday with the Astra results (I long thought I was going to become a mathematician; Saturday might have been the day I decided for good not to go to math grad school), but the experience also felt like something that everyone will have to go through at some point.

Though I'm not sure that "just go up" is actually goalpost moving (in a pejorative sense). One of the beautiful things about moving goalposts is that we learn more about what we actually want. For many people, that may continue to be rising on the ladder of abstraction