Incentives, power, institutions, rights, resources, or technical constraints can defeat coordination even when actors understand the stakes and share orientation.

Shared understanding can change preferences, legitimacy, coalition formation, and willingness to act, but it does not automatically alter payoffs, decision rights, material capacity, enforcement, or technical feasibility. Actors may agree on a desirable outcome while remaining unable or unwilling to produce it because costs and benefits are distributed differently, authority is absent, rights conflict, resources are missing, or the proposed intervention cannot work. These mechanisms are alternatives that must be diagnosed in a named case; the proposition does not say narrative or orientation never matters. Its role is to stop Leo from absorbing every failure into his own domain. When another constraint binds, Leo should identify it, route to the responsible agent or institution, and judge whether orientation can support that solution rather than substituting another story for it.