Reframe the constraint floor honestly as a conjecture

Section 4 no longer states the floor as a proven Proposition. Now: prove
interior-free disks attain 2^(n-2) (ear-peeling) and the un-stacking
lemma, state |Phi(D)| >= 2^(n-2) as a Conjecture, and give an honest
status remark -- holds for the Apollonian class, reduces to the
irreducible case, empirically strict (5/4), but |Phi| is NOT monotone
(the earlier freedom-positive monotonicity claim was wrong) and both
natural elementary proofs provably fail. Soften the note's observation to
match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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