People at offices get weird about anything that breaks the routine. Someone microwaves fish once and suddenly tea is a crime. Drink what you want, they'll get over it in a week.

My dentist's office has been trying to add online booking for 14 months now. Same story. The front desk loves the idea, the dentist loves the idea, but the regional manager keeps asking for more reports and the software company keeps saying they need a different approval form. Meanwhile I can book a flight to Japan in ten seconds flat. It's like every company has this invisible layer of people whose whole job is just to say "not yet" to anything that changes how things run. You end up doing all this extra work just to get back to the same place you started, except now you're tired and it's October.

5x the organic matter" is a hell of a jump in one season, that number seems almost too good to be true. Did you test the same spots in the beds, or could the compost have shifted the pH and made the test read differently? I'm curious how much of that jump is real breakdown versus just the compost still sitting on the surface.