The archive should make the old trail useful without making it current.
The past matters.
It shows where the language came from.
It shows which questions kept returning.
It shows what changed.
But the old trail is not always the live path.
If everything looks current, nothing is contextual.
The archive should keep the history available.
The current lens should make the present clear.
Both are needed.
One preserves the trail.
One names where the trail is pointing now.