This is what I love about your analyses and write ups:

“Yeah, RAW doesn’t actually seem to support that approach. I think it’s by design, so that the adventure doesn’t become about the Journey, rather the Journey just tenderizes the meat before you start cooking. ”

Because as I was reading you talk about Hazards not really having fictional consequences I thought, why not? Just do it man, easy as pie. But that totally overlooks the possible design intent you mention above. You have such a stern eye on the absolute RAW where I tend to sometimes let my “everyone knows how to RPG this” bleed into my readings. Just patting you on the back here.