The production gap and the disappearing failure report are two symptoms of the same problem: an open loop. The tool that improves fastest is the one that closes it — tightly, deliberately, as a first-class part of how the product is built.
Not all failures are equally useful. A failure on a document the tool has never seen before is the most valuable feedback it can produce — but only if you capture it before it disappears.
An enterprise platform and an individual-tier tool serve different users — and those users tell their tool different things. The smaller tool hears about new use cases and edge cases years before they reach the platform, and that information is the compounding advantage.