This is the nudge we need! Thanks! Note that the current limitation is that you can’t automatically ratchet yourself to an emergency day every day, you can just auto-ratchet the road to your current datapoint, so you can never have more than 2 days of safety buffer. If you’re generally skating the edge then you’ll still generally have an emergency day every day anyway.
So I think it’s rare to actually want such extreme auto-ratcheting. But if that’s you then we should certainly let you, and this might be an easy fix (or might be surprisingly hard – not sure yet). In any case, if you email us – support@beeminder.com – we can give you a steep discount for guineapigging this for us. Thanks again!