Cultural spaces and institutions are deliberately designing for deceleration—rejecting optimization in favor of unhurried human interaction. The express haircut stall inverts by using speed for efficiency but at lower cost; the Royal Bank's commitment to 'as it should be' and the cultural valorization of hand-blending all signal a movement away from frictionless transaction toward intentional, lingering presence. This is not nostalgia for slowness; it's a Craft-ward assertion that some processes shouldn't be optimized.