Haasnoot and colleagues displace planning from the selection of a supposedly optimal future to the design of sequences able to change when circumstances make current measures inadequate. Their Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways approach joins Adaptive Policymaking, with its monitored signposts and triggers, to Adaptation Pathways, which maps alternative actions and their possible transitions. An adaptation tipping point is neither the end of a predetermined programme nor a forecast date; it marks a condition under which an action ceases to meet its stated objectives. The Rhine Delta application gives the method an environmental-management demonstration rather than leaving it as a philosophical metaphor for flexibility. The operation is temporal qualification: a decision is specified together with the conditions that would require its alteration and the routes through which alteration can occur. This bridges decision theory, infrastructure planning, policy evaluation and environmental governance. For The Waiting City the paper is a direct methodological predecessor, not a supporting citation for an allegedly new invention of adaptive planning. Any proposed Waiting Grammar must explain what is added by parcel-specific property authority, informal current use, ecological succession, culturally contested value, full-chain material exit and the right to challenge who establishes the decision horizon. The novel unit, if established, is not the adaptive pathway alone but a situated, rights-bearing decision whose premises remain revisable.