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The reason is that the encoder was designed for continuous multi-frame video, so single-frame input carries insufficient information. The authors conclude that accurate future prediction does not by itself guarantee good action generation, echoing several other works: offline metrics cannot rank real deployment quality. Another direct resonance: a roadmap manifesto on whole-body intelligence pretraining paradigms argued days ago that native humanoids should not be understood as a robotic arm plus a mobile base, nor as a VLM followed by an action head; humanoid tasks have no clear navigation-then-manipulation boundary. This paper does not cite that manifesto, yet it is a fully running system that empirically validates both claims from architecture design to problem diagnosis—unified whole-body single-model joint generation of locomotion and manipulation is exactly what the manifesto calls \"native\"; wiping tables and mopping floors requiring concurrent coordination is a concrete example of \"no navigation-then-manipulation boundary.\" One is pure roadmap reasoning; the other grounds that reasoning in data and ablations." } }