Remove AI code slop

• ›Check the diff against main and remove AI-generated slop introduced in the branch.
• ›Focus Areas
• ›Extra comments that are unnecessary or inconsistent with local style
• ›Defensive checks or try/catch blocks that are abnormal for trusted code paths
• ›Casts to any used only to bypass type issues
• ›Deeply nested code that should be simplified with early returns
• ›Other patterns inconsistent with the file and surrounding codebase
• ›Guardrails
• ›Keep behavior u