Challenge 1: Why Outlining Waits Until After Styling Is Finalized — Solution Walkthrough

The answer:

Per Chapter 8's own material, outlining converts live text into
ordinary vector paths that can no longer be edited by typing. Step 6's
wordmark styling — font, size, tracking — is still being adjusted at
that point to visually balance against the icon, and the wording
itself could still plausibly change. Outlining at that stage would
lock in styling that hadn't actually been finalized yet.

Why waiting until Step 7 avoids a real problem:

If the text had been outlined immediately in Step 6 and a tracking or
font adjustment were needed afterward, that adjustment could no longer
be made by simply changing a typography setting — it would require
manually reshaping the outlined paths instead, exactly the harder,
error-prone situation Chapter 8's own warning box described.

Why this matches the course's own established pattern:

This is the same "convert only once it's actually needed" caution
Chapters 4 and 6 already established for live shapes and Pathfinder
results. Keeping text live for as long as real editing might still
happen, then converting only once the design is genuinely settled, is
the same underlying discipline applied a third time.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This exercise checks that outlining is correctly timed to after
styling is finalized, tying back to Chapter 8's own warning about
outlining being a one-way trade.