Originally Posted by Verdell

I'm not so sure. SS with a leveling mechanism (with counters like GS, and only 1 per PCS run) could essentially be a long-notice GS, and I don't hear anyone complaining about GS in their current form (auto-accept excluded.) It makes sense that they're different because short-notice vs PCS, but leveling-wise they could be very similar. And I'm not sure why that would be a bad thing.

In other words, I think I agree with you that SS should have been like GS in terms of guardrails. Naming it a different slip can also be helpful. Don't get me started on PBS bidding for SC periods that require YS in icrew.