Wait, wait, wait. Let's back up. What was the goal when you introduced the golden tests (characterization tests) in the first place? What were you trying to do? The idea with these was to use them when the correct behavior of a legacy system is unknown/undocumented, so that you can in some way characterize what it is currently doing, so that you can safely shuffle the "insides" of the code in preparation for incrementally evolving the system, or to add an interaction point for an extension, etc. Was something like that the plan?
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