Erviti isn't picking a side between "Pogačar is cracking" and "Pogačar was coasting" — he's saying the finish line gave him no way to choose. Pogačar and Enric Mas crossed together, the overall lead still grew to 3:34, and the two of them put nearly a minute into everyone else on the road. From outside the team car, that result is compatible with total effort and with deliberate conservation, and Erviti says as much: «It's difficult to interpret what happened to Tadej.» His own fix is to wait — «we'll find that out in the next few days» — because a single stage produced a scoreboard, not an answer.