The surprise is an opening, not a free point: THE READ turned down a notch

Oliver, same day: 'die Gegner sind jetzt etwas zuu einfach.' The habit takes
four same-lane shots to learn (was three) and the wrong-foot costs about a
third less on every dial: surpRead 0.85->0.6, surpSlow 0.45->0.3, surpFlub
0.35->0.22. The whiff-window test pin rides down with it (0.25->0.15); the
slower-than-the-coach pin still holds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/config.js

@@ -608,11 +608,14 @@ export const TUNE = {
   // the champion — "HE RETURNS EVERYTHING" — is exactly the one you beat by setting a habit and
   // breaking it on the big point. Skill, not grind, is what opens the ladder past the coach.
   // Rally lanes only (doHit's aimed player shots); serves keep their own game. Solo match only.
-  readHabit: 3,        // same-lane returns in a row before the opponent has learned the pattern
+  // RETUNED DOWN 2026-08-28 same day (Oliver: "die Gegner sind jetzt etwas zuu einfach"): the
+  // habit takes one more shot to learn and the wrong-foot costs about a third less on every dial,
+  // so a surprise is an opening you still have to play, not a point handed over.
+  readHabit: 4,        // same-lane returns in a row before the opponent has learned the pattern
   readAnticipate: 0.97,// what aiRead climbs toward on an EXPECTED ball at the top rung
-  surpRead: 0.85,      // fraction of aiRead a wrong-footed opponent loses (x rung scale)
-  surpSlow: 0.45,      // fraction of chase speed it loses on the surprise ball (x rung scale)
-  surpFlub: 0.35,      // whiff ADDED at contact on the surprise ball at the top rung
+  surpRead: 0.6,       // fraction of aiRead a wrong-footed opponent loses (x rung scale)
+  surpSlow: 0.3,       // fraction of chase speed it loses on the surprise ball (x rung scale)
+  surpFlub: 0.22,      // whiff ADDED at contact on the surprise ball at the top rung
   // ---- MOVEMENT READS (2026-08-28): the sprites run, the court answers. Two cheap effects, both
   // live-tunable: feet kick the surface's own dust once a body crosses trailMin, and a body moving
   // that fast leaves a two-ghost speed streak behind it (the modal masthead's own trick, sampled