Continuity during a gap
The arrangement may keep work moving while authority is clarified.
The scene is invented. The question is yours.
Permanently temporary
The acting lead receives a permanent nameplate. Permission to change anything is still being printed.
An invented scene. Not a real case.
Invented role sheet: the appointment is temporary; the duties have no end date and no stated decision scope.
This is authored evidence inside the simulation, not an observation of the world.
The arrangement may keep work moving while authority is clarified.
The temporary label may excuse withholding the authority the duties require.
Neither reading is a verdict. The gap alone cannot settle it.