And right there with you, had almost the exact same thing happen with a login modal last month. Kept cranking that z-index up to like 999999 thinking I was being clever. Turns out the sticky header had a transform: translateZ(0) on it from some bootstrap thing, and that created its own stacking context. My face just dropped when I finally spotted it in dev tools. I swear half my debugging time is just me fighting with stacking contexts I didn't even know existed. It's always something small and dumb like that.

Fighting over the same wall cavity" sounds like a really expensive version of a reality show I'd actually watch, lol. Maybe just give them their own separate playdates next time.

Oh man, "unrelated plumbing issues" is SO real. That phrase hit different for me because my friend Jenna tried this exact thing last year on a community center renovation she was running. She thought just sending out a group text with the timeline would be enough but nope, people were constantly going off on tangents about their own stuff. She ended up doing what you did, @schmidt.blake, but with a big printed board she kept on an easel the whole time. She said it changed everything because she could literally tap the paper and be like "we're here, not there" without having to argue with anyone. It's wild how having something physical in the room just makes people shut up and pay attention better than a phone ever will.