G2 and VII-C remain closed

The compact-switch witness copied from IX-A and IX-D is

with nonzero dressing variation under its stated hypotheses. In the coupling expansion its nonzero order-$\kappa$ coefficient cannot be canceled by a correction beginning at order ${\kappa }^2$: coefficient extraction at order $\kappa$ annihilates every such correction. Binary time ordering therefore does not open G2.

VII-C remains in force under its original joint hypotheses (E1)–(E4), which are distinct from the gate labels of this paper. Subtracting a scalar finite part does not prove normal-topology admission continuity. F9a and separate pointwise continuity are not promoted to F9b or hypocontinuity.