I take it as the other MDR employees and their work being valid but foundational or middle work, while Cold Harbor was a specific the capstone.

You do want to minimize your kidnappings if you want to stay under the radar. A radar that one might assume is extra aggressive since this is not a normal company by any stretch.

Lumen a corporate cult. I mean they have a department dedicated to raising sheep for literal sacrifice in a religious ceremony to guide souls to the company founder.

That angle alone, with the mural and, it would be so easy to argue that they saw this final step as vital but too “holy” and act to sully with redundancies.